In the fall of 2019, I toured the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Retirement Operations Center—known as the “ROC”—located 220 feet underground in a former limestone mine north of Pittsburgh, ...

In his “Secrets of OPM” posts, Director Scott Kupor outlines efforts to digitize retirement processing and improve efficiency ...

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A new way to access 1099-Rs and more detailed public-facing processing times are the federal human capital arm’s latest ...

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The Social Security Administration (SSA) is a cornerstone of financial security for millions of Americans. As the federal ...

The simple target of what OPM is trying to do with retirement services, Kupor said, is to go paperless “as quickly as ...