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Substantial Time Improvements Seen In Retirement Processing

January 1, 2016

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has always been at the centre point for criticism over the years and even though the retirement backlog hardly got altered during the month of November, the Office of Personnel management did manage to make some excellent advancements in their application processing times. There was a substantial and unexpected processing time improvement seen as they managed to process around 81 percent of all the applications (That were still pending) within a period of 60 days(or even lesser). This also meant that they overcame the processing time of October which was 74 percent. This was indicated by the most recently released OPM report (dated December 4^th). It’s also worth mentioning here that they haven’t gone past 80 percent since March 2014 so this is something worth appreciating.

OPM speeds up Retirement processing:

Retirement processing has always been a tedious task but since October there have been some good changes made. On average, it took 37 days to get a case approved during the month of November and it’s a stark improvement compared to the 60 days it took in the earlier months.

Office of Personnel management managed to receive around 6,019 claims and it managed to get around 6100 claims during the month and that’s a great update.

The agency also made some serious changes to retirement claims and have now added a lot of data about the time it might take federal officers to get their retirement benefits. Retirement processing is now expected to take lesser time and this will also be indicated in the reports that are going to be presented to the retirees.

Advancements like these always fail to catch substantial media attention whereas critics are always ready to take the toll on OPM whenever something bad occurs. It’s only fair to appreciate when some good quality work is done too.