Keeping Watch on Your Federal Retirement Application

After you submit your federal retirement application, your personnel office will finish the processing and forward the package to your payroll office, which will authorize your final salary payment and a lump sum payment for any unused annual leave. It will also certify and close out your individual retirement record.

Then, it will forward your retirement package to OPM’s Retirement Operations Center in Boyers, Pennsylvania, on a “Register of Separation and Transfers.” When that happens, some payroll offices will let you know the register number, the transmittal and mailing dates, and their office number. If yours doesn’t, you can always call and ask for that information. Click HERE to read more.