Federal Digitization: Workforce to Receive Retirement Checks in Under a Month

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) plans to roll out a paperless, fully digital retirement application system across the government starting next month, OPM said in a May 7 memorandum to the heads of various agencies. In a May 9 post on social media platform X, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) called the effort a “collaboration win” by DOGE and OPM, saying the digitization of the retirement system is happening “after 35+ years of failed modernization attempts.” The digitization marks an end to the OPM’s decades-old paper system for retirement. “This will reduce the average time people wait to receive their retirement check from 3-5 months to less than 1 month,” DOGE said....