The Office of Personnel Management received almost twice as many retirement claims in October as it did in September according to the latest retirement processing status report published by the agency.
10,155 new claims were received in October, far more than the 6,350 received the month before. Of those, 8,785 were processed, pushing the outstanding backlog of claims up to 14,137, almost 11% higher than in the previous month. OPM also said that 83.2% of claims were processed in 60 days or less.
OPM is now over its projected inventory of retirement claims. According to the latest report, it had projected a backlog of 12,442 claims in October versus the 14,137 it ultimately wound up having. However, OPM did process slightly more claims than it had projected; 8,785 were processed in October and it had projected processing only 8,500.
The latest figures are included below.
| Month | Projected Claims Received | Projected Claims Processed | Projected Inventory | Claims Received | Claims Processed | Inventory | % Processed in 60 days or less |
| Oct-13 | 8,400 | 11,500 | 19,142 | 7,484 | 11,027 | 14,176 | |
| Nov-13 | 8,400 | 11,500 | 16,042 | 5,672 | 5,714 | 14,134 | |
| Dec-13 | 8,400 | 11,500 | 12,942 | 4,952 | 6,449 | 12,637 | |
| Jan-14 | 19,000 | 8,700 | 23,242 | 17,383 | 8,724 | 21,296 | |
| Feb-14 | 9,800 | 9,400 | 23,642 | 12,025 | 9,767 | 23,554 | |
| Mar-14 | 6,400 | 10,400 | 19,642 | 6,831 | 11,812 | 18,573 | |
| Apr-14 | 6,500 | 9,300 | 16,842 | 8,047 | 10,002 | 16,618 | |
| May-14 | 6,800 | 9,000 | 14,642 | 8,431 | 10,498 | 14,551 | 76.6% |
| Jun-14 | 8,000 | 8,100 | 14,542 | 6,627 | 8,787 | 12,391 | 77.3% |
| Jul-14 | 8,000 | 8,100 | 14,442 | 9,101 | 7,872 | 13,620 | 77.9% |
| Aug-14 | 7,400 | 8,000 | 13,842 | 6,795 | 7,318 | 13,097 | 78.5% |
| Sep-14 | 7,300 | 8,000 | 13,142 | 6,350 | 6,680 | 12,767 | 78.8% |
| Oct-14 | 7,800 | 8,500 | 12,442 | 10,155 | 8,785 | 14,137 | 83.2% |
| Nov-14 | 7,600 | 7,800 | 12,242 | not available | not available | not available | not available |
| Dec-14 | 5,600 | 6,500 | 11,342 | not available | not available | not available | not available |
| Jan-15 | 19,000 | 8,700 | 21,642 | not available | not available | not available | not available |
| Feb-15 | 9,700 | 9,800 | 21,542 | not available | not available | not available | not available |
| Mar-15 | 6,400 | 11,000 | 16,942 | not available | not available | not available | not available |
| Apr-15 | 6,700 | 9,600 | 14,042 | not available | not available | not available | not available |
| May-15 | 7,100 | 9,100 | 12,042 | not available | not available | not available | not available |
| Jun-15 | 7,500 | 8,000 | 11,542 | not available | not available | not available | not available |
| Jul-15 | 8,000 | 8,100 | 11,442 | not available | not available | not available | not available |
| Aug-15 | 7,400 | 7,600 | 11,242 | not available | not available | not available | not available |
| Sep-15 | 7,300 | 7,500 | 11,042 | not available | not available | not available | not available |
