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• Deferred Resignation Periods about to End for Many; Workforce Shrinking by about an Eighth - September 24, 2025

• FEDweek

  While the impending September 30 end of the current fiscal year brings a threat of a potential partial government shutdown, for many federal employees it will bring a more definite change: the end of their “deferred resignation” periods.

  That is the most common deadline under both the original government-wide offer—which kept employees in paid status on administrative leave up to a set separation date—and individual agency-specific offers that followed. In some cases, agencies allowed for a later date in order for employees to qualify for retirement benefits.

  OPM’s most recent count is that nearly 300,000 positions will be eliminated by the end of this year—about an eighth of the total as of the start of the year.

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