OPM’s Retirement Backlog Hit an 8-Year Low Last Month

OPM’s Retirement Backlog Hit an 8-Year Low Last Month

Efforts to streamline the processing of departing federal workers’ retirement applications continue to pay dividends, as the inventory of pending claims hit the lowest point since 2016.

The government’s backlog of pending retirement claims from federal workers hit an eight-year low last month.

The Office of Personnel Management’s retirement process and subsequent backlog has long dogged the federal government’s HR agency, frustrating agencies and departing federal employees alike, in large part due to paper-based legacy personnel systems. Follow link for more. https://bit.ly/4bWKOg2