A federal employee with 30 years of service and a $90,000 high-3 average salary receives only $27,000 annually under FERS, ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the Social Security Administration (SSA) finally announced the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for 2026—a respectable 2.8% increase—it was a positive signal for tens of millions of Americans.

As agencies gear up for implementation, OPM detailed what Schedule Policy/Career will mean for recruitment, adverse actions ...