Orders that awarded a portion of the Gross Annuity or Self-Only Annuity did NOT have a RAS apportionment under OPM policy. OPM, citing 5 USC 8421(c), now believes that the RAS should be ...

Once all the records are at OPM, the agency usually approves an interim payment within a week. But calculating the correct annuity takes longer. And OPM has found that adjudicating a FERS ...

A former OPM employee also said there has been problems with data cleansing for the system, noting that annuity calculations have not consistently been correct as a result. It's unclear whether ...

The RFIs solicit contractor help with an initiative to modernize the Federal Annuity Claims Expert System (FACES), which federal retirement counselors use “to adjudicate about 80,000 federal ...

OPM has long attempted to improve its retirement operations. Federal retirees have complained about long delays in getting their full annuity checks. On Tuesday, The Washington Post’s Josh ...

Can the federal employee survive on a reduced annuity? If a federal employee is considering filing for OPM disability retirement, it is important to understand that this type of retirement usually ...