Senators Want Update from OPM On Federal Retirement Improvements

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Bicameral lawmakers are urging the Office of Personnel Management to share its plan to reduce wait times for processing federal employees’ retirement claims. Feds often have to wait two to three months to start receiving retirement benefits after they submit a claim. The delays stem from OPM’s legacy retirement system, which is largely paper-based. OPM has piloted a retirement services modernization project, and the lawmakers are asking for a timeline on when OPM will roll that out on a larger scale. The letter from lawmakers comes after OPM received an influx of retirement cases at the start of 2023. (Duckworth, Durbin, Kelly urge Office of Personnel Management to address delays in delivering federal retirement benefits – Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.))

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