OPM Retirement Backlog Surges 68% to Start 2025

OPM Retirement Backlog Surges 68% to Start 2025

OPM’s inventory of retirement claims grew sharply to start 2025, but it’s been worse.

The annual spike in the number of federal employees retiring at the end of the calendar year has caused a massive increase in the size of the OPM retirement backlog to kick off 2025. The total number of outstanding retirement claims at the agency went from 13,876 at the end of December to 23,277 at the end of January, a 68% increase. Click on link to read more from FedSmith. https://lnkd.in/d3xYqZ3Z