Have you read Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor’s weekly blog titled, “Secrets of OPM?” If you haven’t, you may find it is written with a healthy sense of humor but also with a sense ...

Even if you’re not a federal worker, it’s good to have a Plan B in case your benefits are delayed.

DOGE has touted the announcement as a win, but development and testing for the new Online Retirement Application began under the previous administration, per past budget requests. Federal retirement ...

On Nov. 24, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management's inspector general released its list of top management challenges for Fiscal Year 2026. Recent retirees and federal employees working with reduced ...

House Democrats on Monday suggested that the Office of Personnel Management has not been entirely forthcoming in responding to their oversight requests over the federal retirement backlog, which has ...

The Office of Personnel Management is giving agencies less than a month to start submitting all new retirement applications for federal employees electronically, moving away from a largely paper-based ...

OPM appealed to the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit analyzed two key statutes: 5 U.S.C. § 8421 (c), which governs the FERS annuity supplement and 5 U.S.C. § 8467 (a), which authorizes OPM to ...

As the Office of Personnel Management makes progress toward a long-pursued goal to move the government’s paper-based retirement system into the 21st century, its director said a “fully automated” ...