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Thousands of Office of Personnel Management employees process retirement applications by hand using paper in a Pennsylvania mine. Twitter/@DOGE 2025-02-28T17:06:25Z ...
In January 2025, OPM received over new 16,000 retirement claims and processed 6,700. January usually sees an influx of retirement applications; the month before, OPM received 5,020 and processed ...
Boyers, Pa., a small rural town about an hour north of Pittsburgh, is home to the underground U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Retirement Operations Center.
The other day Elon Musk falsely described the Boyers, Pa., U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Records Center as a “mine shaft elevator,” bringing to mind an old abandoned coal mine.
Over the years, the warehouse-like OPM space inside the mine — which is 220 feet underground — has accumulated more than 400 million individual records, spread across 26,000 file cabinets, in ...
The United States government's Office of Personnel Management uses Iron Mountain to process and store paperwork when federal workers retire and now Musk is taking aim at the facility.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM)– A Harrisburg man was sentenced after sending threats to kill employees of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) with an assault weapon. Thomas West, 44, of Harrisburg ...
Eight Democrats decried recent guidance encouraging agencies to pay Schedule C political appointees the maximum federal salary of $195,200 as an attempt to hire “underqualified and overpaid political ...