Federal Retirement Backlog Triples; OPM Says Digital Processing Helping
Snippet of Article: "...Federal retirees are facing delays in retirement processing as the backlog swells to end 2025, triple the amount from last year. ...OPM currently has about 48,396 applications awaiting final processing, compared to just 13,844 at the end of November 2024. ...OPM says that 92 percent of the 317,000 departures in the federal workforce so far in 2025 were voluntary. ..."
Source: www.fedmanager.com