By Ian Smith – April 5, 2016 The Office of Personnel Management got a break last month from the massive wave of new retirement applications that had flooded the agency in the first two months of the year. OPM “only” received 5,741 new applications in March, down significantly from the five figure numbers that rolled in…
The retirement claims backlog inched back up in July, after the Office of Personnel Management reduced the number of outstanding applications to its lowest point in years in June. OPM received 9,101 new retirement applications in July, over 1,000 more than expected. The backlog is now at 13,620 claims — 1,229 more claims than in…
The Office of Personnel Management in June once again made progress on its retirement claims backlog, cutting the number of outstanding applications to the lowest point in years. OPM processed 8,787 claims in June, cutting the backlog by 15 percent since May to 12,391. This was in part due to about 1,400 fewer former federal…
