In a letter to House Democrats, OPM Director Scott Kupor touted the benefits of a new online platform in streamlining the ...

Democratic lawmakers are pressing OPM for answers on how it plans to address delays in federal retirement processing, amid a major application surge this year.

The Office of Personnel Management continued to make gains in its backlog of federal employees’ pending retirement applications, though progress has begun to slow. The federal government’s dedicated ...

That brings us to the Government Pension Offset (GPO)—a Social Security provision that reduced (or in some cases, wiped out ...

For the third time this year, the federal government’s backlog of pending retirement claims filed by departing federal workers hit a six-year low, as the Office of Personnel Management continues its ...

Following the resounding election victory of Donald Trump this week and the retaking of the U.S. Senate by the Republican Party, retirement and tax policy could be significantly impacted following the ...

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) processes federal retirement applications entirely on paper. These records are stored and handled in an underground limestone mine in Boyers, Pennsylvania ...

In earlier articles, I looked at certain types of government employees who’ve worked previously with a “non-covered” pension. That is, they worked at a job where they didn’t have to pay Social ...

In a press conference on Tuesday with President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and X Æ A-12, Musk’s four year old son, Americans learned something quite unanticipated about the federal government: retirement ...

Social Security was originally designed to pay the same lifetime benefit no matter when you claim. But life expectancy has changed from what legislators expected when updated the rules 40 years ago.

Millions of federal employees can invest in Chinese companies sanctioned by the U.S. government via its flagship retirement plan, even though these companies have been branded a danger to national ...