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• Lawmakers Pressure OPM to Begin Phased Retirement - July 8, 2014

• By Eric Katz, Government Executive

  A bipartisan chorus of lawmakers is ramping up pressure on the Office of Personnel Management to put out final guidance that would allow federal employees to partially retire while training their successors.

  Four Democrats and two Republicans wrote a letter to OPM Director Katherine Archuleta and Office of Management and Budget acting Director Brian Deese calling the agency’s delay in implementing final phased retirement regulations unacceptable. The lawmakers asked for a specific date to expect the final rule and offered to assist in OPM’s efforts.

  To read the full article, please click here:  http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2014/07/lawmakers-pressure-opm-begin-phased-retirement/88030/?oref=top-story

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