This year’s deferred resignation program (DRP) has had a major impact on federal retirement processing. DRP retirees are reporting delays and frustrations as they await their annuities. Agencies and the Office of Personnel Management are working through a flood of applications. HR employees are facing high workloads, while bracing for a second looming wave of retirements. Meanwhile, OPM is overhauling the government’s legacy retirement process — an effort that, while long-awaited, is leading to further questions. (Lucy Pope/Federal News Network)
Reservists no longer need to demonstrate that their period of active duty service was connected to a war to qualify for transitional health care coverage.
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