OPM makes slow progress on retirement backlog in August

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OPM makes slow progress on retirement backlog in August

The Office of Personnel Management made a small dent in its retirement claims backlog in August. The inventory dropped from 16,455 claims last month to 16,350.

Nicole Ogrysko@nogryskoWFED

September 4, 2015 4:32 pm

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The Office of Personnel Management made little progress in cutting its retirement backlog in August. The inventory now stands at 16,350 claims, just slightly down from the 16,455 applications it had in its backlog in July.

OPM received 7,341 claims last month, 59 fewer than the 7,400 applications it projected. It processed 7,446 claims, 154 shy of the 7,600 claims OPM predicted.

Since May, 2014, OPM began tracking the number of claims it processed in 60 days or less. It fared better in August, processing 69.6 percent of its applications in that time, compared with 69 percent in July.

The backlog spiked to its highest level during the past five months in July, when OPM’s inventory soared from 14,511 claims to 16,455.