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• They did everything right and still haven’t been paid - April 24, 2026

• Months after retiring, some federal workers are stuck in a bureaucratic maze with no checks, no answers and no clear end in sight.

  Tammy Flanagan, Government Executive
  
  was planning to write about the number of TSP millionaires for this week’s column — until I started getting messages from former federal employees, all who retired on September 30, 2025, and are still waiting for their retirement benefit from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to be finalized.
  
  It is not completely surprising that retirement processing has slowed down, and for some former employees, they continue to wait for their retirement benefits to be finalized. But for the employees who have reached out for assistance, many have not received any money since their last paycheck was received in October 2025.
  
  It has been almost six months with very little or, in some cases, no money and little communication to help them understand how long they will have to continue to wait.

  To read the full article, click here.

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