By Erich Wagner – November 6, 2017 The Office of Personnel Management on Monday reported a slowdown in its processing of federal employee retirement claims in October, marking the first significant increase to its backlog since July. Last month, OPM received 8,850 new retirement claims from departing federal workers, which was only slightly more than…
By Jory Heckman – August 8, 2017 The Office of Personnel Management saw an uptick in its retirement claims backlog in July after it brought the inventory down to its lowest point in the year just a month before. The inventory of unprocessed retirement claims stands at 17,091, about 4,000 claims away from the agency’s…
By Kellie Lunney – August 6, 2015 The retirement claims backlog grew by nearly 2,000 applications between June and July, according to the latest data from the Office of Personnel Management. The increase in the backlog during that month – from 14,511 unprocessed federal retirement claims to now 16,455 claims – is a setback for…
The Office of Personnel Management continued to chip away at the retirement claims backlog last month, decreasing it by 12 percent between April and May, and processing more applications than expected. The backlog at the end of May was 14,551 claims — the lowest it has been since December 2013, when there were 12,637 applications…
