OPM’s retirement processing finishes strong for 2023, but still ‘not where we need to be’

Summary: In the first few months of the new year, the Office of Personnel Management is bracing for a surge in federal retirement claims. The annual uptick in claims is typical for OPM’s retirement services division. Throughout 2023, close to 89,000 federal employees filed for retirement. About 12,400 of those claims were processed in January alone, the month with by far the highest number of claims. The approaching surge comes after OPM made significant strides in paring down its backlog of unprocessed retirement claims from federal employees in the back half of 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices