Federal Workers HAVE gotten the message…
The President doesn’t want ya….
Get out….
The number of people , over 100, 000 out of about 3 Million is so much over the normal numbers combined with the government shutdown has processing backed up…..
A historic wave of retirements and other departures has swept through the federal workforce in recent months, putting enormous strain on agencies as they cope with a new government shutdown and administration layoffs.
This mass exodus — unprecedented in its scale — includes 154,000 federal employees who accepted buyout offers and were largely removed from the payroll as of the end of last month. Some of those are among nearly 105,000 employees who took regular retirement during the fiscal year that ended in September, an 18 percent surge from the previous year.
Tens of thousands of the cases are still awaiting processing, creating a crisis for already understaffed human resources offices across the government and the Office of Personnel Management.
With a significantly reduced workforce of its own, OPM has a growing backlog and worsening wait times, raising alarms about the government’s ability to smoothly handle this unprecedented personnel shift, according to documents and interviews with HR representatives and departed federal workers.
Complicating the efforts, the government shutdown that began on Oct. 1 has furloughed some workers who handle paperwork and payroll, meaning the departing employees who would be receiving their documentation and final annuity payments around this time are experiencing further delays, according to documents and workers.
OPM Director Scott Kupor said in an interview with The Washington Post that he remains optimistic about his agency’s ability to get through the backlog. He said OPM is in touch with other agencies about how to streamline the process and HR workers at other agencies will be detailed to his office to help with the workload…..
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One federal worker who took a buyout to leave the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation was told before the shutdown that they should not expect annuity payments as long as the shutdown continued.
“While the backlog at OPM means delays in adjudicating/finalizing the annuity and reduced payments in the interim, the shutdown will mean further delays,” an email from the agency’s HR office said.
Emails obtained by The Post show that agencies’ in-house HR offices are themselves struggling to handle personnel issues….
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