James48843
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Turns out there are LOTS of people who have retired, but OPM isn’t paying them yet. Great article on Govecec.com. Glad it’s not me!
It is not completely surprising that retirement processing has slowed down, and for some former employees, they continue to wait for their retirement benefits to be finalized. But for the employees who have reached out for assistance, many have not received any money since their last paycheck was received in October 2025.
It has been almost six months with very little or, in some cases, no money and little communication to help them understand how long they will have to continue to wait.
Here are the stories that I received this week:
Angie retired from the USDA Farm Service. Angie represents one of the thousands of federal employees who accepted the Deferred Resignation Program (DRP) and agreed to resign or retire at the end of the fiscal year in 2025.
Angie told me that she has been preparing for retirement by attending pre-retirement training, and she saved her annual leave so that she would have some money to hold her over while her retirement was being processed. She also saved extra money so that she could pay her bills for up to six months should her retirement be delayed. She considered herself as prepared as she could be.
After numerous calls to OPM, with many hours spent waiting on hold, she finally found out what appears to be the reason why she has not received any of her retirement benefits since her last day of work.
(More horror stories at: https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2026/04/everything-right-still-havent-been-paid/413066/ )
They did everything right and still haven’t been paid
Months after retiring, some federal workers are stuck in a bureaucratic maze with no checks, no answers and no clear end in sight.
I was planning to write about the number of TSP millionaires for this week’s column — until I started getting messages from former federal employees, all who retired on September 30, 2025, and are still waiting for their retirement benefit from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to be finalized.It is not completely surprising that retirement processing has slowed down, and for some former employees, they continue to wait for their retirement benefits to be finalized. But for the employees who have reached out for assistance, many have not received any money since their last paycheck was received in October 2025.
It has been almost six months with very little or, in some cases, no money and little communication to help them understand how long they will have to continue to wait.
Here are the stories that I received this week:
Angie retired from the USDA Farm Service. Angie represents one of the thousands of federal employees who accepted the Deferred Resignation Program (DRP) and agreed to resign or retire at the end of the fiscal year in 2025.
Angie told me that she has been preparing for retirement by attending pre-retirement training, and she saved her annual leave so that she would have some money to hold her over while her retirement was being processed. She also saved extra money so that she could pay her bills for up to six months should her retirement be delayed. She considered herself as prepared as she could be.
After numerous calls to OPM, with many hours spent waiting on hold, she finally found out what appears to be the reason why she has not received any of her retirement benefits since her last day of work.
(More horror stories at: https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2026/04/everything-right-still-havent-been-paid/413066/ )
