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• OPM touts ‘fully paperless’ retirement application, though concerns remain - May 12, 2025

• By Erich Wagner, Government Executive

  The Office of Personnel Management announced last week that it will roll out a new “paperless” retirement application for use across the federal government next month. But experts warn the milestone in OPM's decades-long effort to modernize the retirement process is not the panacea that the Trump administration has touted it to be.
  
  According to a memo from acting OPM Director Charles Ezell to agency heads, effective June 2, the federal government’s HR agency will require all new retirement applications to be submitted electronically via its new Online Retirement Application form. OPM is working with various agency payroll providers to prepare for the changeover next month.

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