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- OPM’s retirement backlog continued to creep higher in July - August 6, 2024
The Office of Personnel Management processed nearly 500 fewer retirement requests than it received last month, causing its backlog to inch up for the second straight month.
Erich Wagner, Government Executive
The federal government’s dedicated HR agency reported a slight uptick in its backlog of pending federal employee retirement claims for the second straight month in July.
Last month, the Office of Personnel Management reported that it received 6,451 new retirement requests, a decrease of roughly 450 cases from June. But despite increasing its output by more than 300 cases, processing 5,994 claims was not enough to stop the backlog from climbing from 15,340 in June to 15,797 last month.
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