The Office of Personnel Management just can't seem to get this retirement thing right. For more than two decades, the OPM has been trying to modernize retirement planning for federal employees.

-- Federal retirement: http://www.opm.gov/retire/tools/calculators/ballpark/menu.asp This calculator projects retirement benefits under federal retirement systems. It ...

Pending claims filed with the OPM’s retirement services division hit a six-year low in June, according to the agency. At the same time, OPM’s announcement shows that Login.gov is continuing to gain ...

Between January and March of each year, OPM sees a significant spike in the number of retirement applications it receives from federal workers departing government. Just this year, the agency saw ...

T he Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced last week that it will roll out a new “paperless” retirement application for use across the federal government next month. This initiative ...

Long a source of frustration for the governmental HR agency, lawmakers and retirees alike, OPM’s inventory of pending retirement claims has been plagued by delays due to the still largely paper ...

That is, for those federal workers ready to retire, OPM launched RetireEZ today. It will let them quickly and accurately calculate their retirement benefits and electronically transfer the proper ...

The idea was to help the government retain institutional memory as growing numbers of the federal workforce reach retirement. The OPM was supposed to release guidelines for the program at the ...

The five-year award enables Maximus to continue its long-term support of OPM’s Retirement and Insurance Services. Maximus will support OPM’s ability to provide Federal annuitants and their ...

This profile will then be used in the future by OPM to track employee retirement readiness and gauge the success of the many programs they offer to help prepare employees for retirement.