Despite Fewer New Claims, Retirement Backlog Has Slight Uptick
Despite fewer incoming claims than the previous month, OPM’s retirement backlog moved slightly higher in September.
Despite fewer incoming claims than the previous month, OPM’s retirement backlog moved slightly higher in September.
OPM’s retirement backlog saw a noticeable improvement in August versus July despite more incoming claims.
The author says that OPM should develop software to aid in calculating the FERS annuity supplement.
OPM’s backlog of retirement claims has been on a slow upward trend so far this summer.
OPM’s retirement backlog remained mostly flat in June as it saw a less than 1% increase in the total number of outstanding retirement applications.
How did OPM’s retirement backlog fare in May? Here are the numbers.
OPM made a slight improvement to the outstanding retirement backlog in April to bring the total below 18,000.
After two months of large increases in its retirement backlog, OPM made significant progress in March to reverse the trend.
The surge of new retirees typically seen at the start of a calendar year has pushed OPM’s retirement backlog to levels not seen since 2015.
The annual influx of end of year retirement applications caused OPM’s retirement backlog to surge 41% in January.