The federal personnel agency has launched an online system for processing retirement applications, ending a paper-based method that had remained largely unchanged for decades. The rollout is one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of federal retirees are still struggling to receive their retirement benefits months after leaving government service, ...

If you are retiring soon, you should have submitted your retirement application, usually through the Online Retirement Application (ORA) system. Retirement involves important, sometimes irreversible ...

However, the application process is rigorous and can be riddled with legal and procedural pitfalls. As federal employment attorneys who have guided many clients through this journey, we want to share ...

OPM has been able to decrease the number of retirement applications in the processing backlog, but the Director says it will ...