During January and February the Retirement Operations Center of OPM received upwards of 31K retirement claims. About half were digital and processed in just over a month. The remaining were paper-based and processed in a bit over 3 months.<\/p>\n
Everyone\u2019s work experience and retirement expectations are unique. GovExec.com<\/strong><\/a><\/em> has an article providing links to many forms, booklets and statistics as a good basis for your own research<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2013 don\u2019t rely solely on the helpful advice of friends and co-workers. You should also avail yourself of the many NARFE webinars<\/strong><\/a> of wide interest to Federal employees and annuitants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greater than 31,000 retirement claims processed by OPM in early 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}