This benefit is in addition to the FERS retirement ... Advisory Letter which advised the agency to cease the practice of apportioning the RAS, absent an express award. OPM chose not to follow ...

also sent a letter this month to Archuleta requesting a timeline for finalizing the phased- retirement rules and an explanation for the delay. An OPM spokesman said the agency is “working hard ...

“[OPM] is committed to the accurate and timely processing of retirement claims to federal ... away from old-fashioned processing. In their letter, the lawmakers asked for more details on how ...

Berry said 40 new staff members would be hired and another 40 would be transferred from other OPM offices for six months to help deal with the backlog. That office will focus only on retirement ...

The Office of Personnel Management made some of its best progress at reducing the number of pending retirement applications from federal workers last year, reducing the backlog by 34% in 2023 and ...