OPM’s Retirement Backlog Improves by 1% in September
OPM’s retirement backlog just barely trended downward in September. Here are the latest figures.
OPM’s retirement backlog just barely trended downward in September. Here are the latest figures.
OPM made a modest improvement to the retirement backlog in August thanks to an uptick in claims processing.
How did OPM’s retirement backlog fare in July 2019? Here are the latest statistics from the agency.
Thanks to the smallest number of claims processed in a month so far this year, the retirement backlog at OPM grew in June.
A recent GAO report says that OPM has problems, some self-inflicted, that are hindering improvements to the agency’s retirement application processing.
OPM’s retirement backlog showed only a slight drop in May as compared to the previous month.
OPM was able to get the retirement backlog back below 20,000 for the first time since December.
Despite more incoming claims than usual in March, OPM was able to make a sizable reduction to the retirement backlog.
February saw its typical surge in new retirement applications, but OPM was able to manage the workload which kept the overall backlog in check.
The author says that the retirement backlog at OPM is projected to get worse, and he proposes a solution which he says could reduce the backlog quickly.