weekly blog titled, “Secrets of OPM?” If you haven’t, you may find it is written with a healthy sense of humor but also with a sense of accomplishing a huge goal of making the government more efficient and focusing on the other meaning of the acronym OPM: Other People’s Money. It’s a reminder that the government is funded by taxpayers’ dollars.
Despite the government’s historic shutdown, the new director’s blog posts do not address how recent retirees will be impacted by delays in retirement processing or with directions on how they should participate in the health benefits open season that will begin on Monday. Many of these individuals are in the transition from being an employee to becoming an annuitant and they are in the dark wondering who they can contact for information and not knowing if their retirement application has even left their agency.
