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Retirement Application Processing Backlog Nearly Doubles in Four Months
The backlog of retirement applications pending processing at OPM has nearly doubled since last fall, with an end-of-February figure above ...
Most Retirement Applications Are Now Made Online, but Still Don’t Reach OPM for Months
A tipping point was recently passed with the majority of federal retirement applications now being made online, OPM has said, ...
OPM Drops Proposal to Speed Up Health Coverage for Those Newly Eligible
OPM has dropped a Biden administration-era proposal to make coverage under the FEHB and PSHB programs effective sooner for federal ...
OPM – Peeling the Onion on Federal Retirement Processing
Ensuring public servants can retire with confidence, dignity, and timely benefits is one of OPM’s most fundamental responsibilities and it’s ...
Federal retirement inventory reaches another new high
The Office of Personnel Management now has over 50,000 applications still awaiting a finalized annuity ...
OPM touts digitization efforts, blames outdated tech for retirement delays
The Office of Personnel Management is addressing what have become growing concerns in Congress over the significant delays in federal ...
House Democrats question OPM on retirement processing delays
House Democrats are pressing the Office of Personnel Management for answers on how the agency is addressing abnormally high volumes ...
Amid ‘unprecedented’ surge of federal retirement claims, delays and frustration grow
For months, the I-Team has been tracking concerns with processing retirement benefits for thousands of federal workers who left the ...
OPM’s retirement backlog skyrockets as deferred resignees begin offboarding
The federal government’s backlog of pending retirement claims hit the highest level since the COVID-19 pandemic last month, as tens ...
Fully automated’ federal retirement feasible in next six months, OPM director says
The simple target of what OPM is trying to do with retirement services, Kupor said, is to go paperless “as ...