{"id":898,"date":"2025-12-27T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T02:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/?p=898"},"modified":"2025-12-27T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T02:17:01","slug":"retiring-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/2025\/12\/27\/retiring-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring Soon ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Key Decisions To Make\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4>Retirement involves important, sometimes irreversible decisions.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/pay-benefits\/2025\/12\/retiring-soon-key-decisions-every-federal-employee-must-make\/410260\/?oref=ge-featured-river-secondary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Here\u2019s a reminder<\/span><\/a> of decisions that cannot be changed once you leave your agency.<\/h4>\n<h3><strong>Colossal Backlog of Retirement Applications at OPM<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4>The federal government\u2019s backlog of pending retirement claims hit the second highest level ever last month, as tens of thousands of federal workers who accepted the Trump administration\u2019s so-called deferred resignation program file their claims. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/pay-benefits\/2025\/11\/opms-retirement-backlog-skyrockets-deferred-resignees-begin-offboarding\/409448\/?oref=ge-related-article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more \u2026<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retirement Info<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2025\/12\/Beach-lounge-chair.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1658\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}