DRP 1 12 31 25 Retirement.
Got an email last night indicating that the annuity is done with adjudication. I'm instructed to check SOL later this afternoon. This morning another email that says a booklet is available in my documents section.
So if your papers were logged in by opm how long is it gonna take to get my refund? I called today and they said it was logged May 13
So if your papers were logged in by opm how long is it gonna take to get my refund? I called today and they said it was logged May 13. i was with USPS for 8 years. And does it matter which agency u worked with? Which agency processes faster?
I retired December 31st, 2025. I retired with a traditional retirement. 38 years and 59 years old. As of late April my OPM said my retirement was finalized. As of June, I will receive my full pension and supliment each month. The long amount of stress is finally over. So, the entire process took me 5 full months. (Had 2 months of interim payments). My pension and supliment ended up higher than I expected. So, my retirement waiting is finally completed. Thank God! Lol
My retirement was recently finalized, to my relief, and then a letter came yesterday from BCBS with an odd combination of initials and part of my last name on it. The message was something about a name/social security number mismatch. I called BCBS, and apparently OPM sent them a wrongly formatted name for me when they informed BCBS that I had retired, and BCBS changed my name to the new wrong name in their system. So now I have to jump through some paperwork hoops to get my name corrected at BCBS. (Who still owns an actual fax machine??) It's a bit of icing on a (frankly) crappy cake. I'm tired.
Is this possible? I retired 9/30 and never heard from OPM once during this process, although I started receiving interim payments in November. I recently submitted a service request inquiring about the status and wonder if this update happened in response to that, but there is no other information, and the portal shows that my June payment will still be my interim payment.
I see this update in my dashboard when I logged in today to Services Online: “We are reviewing the adjudicator's work to ensure accuracy and that all rules and requirements were met. This quality check helps protect your benefits and keeps your case on track”. The message ended saying that once the review of the adjudicator’s work is completed the application will be finalized and payment will be mad. I’m in interim payments since December 2025, retired on 9/30/2025. I wonder how long will this quality review take and whether anyone else has gone through i. I haven’t heard of this quality review before and wonder if it’s random or selective. Thank you for any insights!
I took the DRP last year thru the SBA. Applied for unemployment a few months after the end of pay with them. Received unemployment for a few months and then found a job. Now NJ unemployment office says I wasn’t entitled to it and I have to pay it back. I have an appeals call this week and wondering if the SBA will be on the call. My argument is that it wasn’t guaranteed to be approved for the DRP and if they really wanted me to stay, they could have declined me for it. I was there just under two years. Any insight of how to fight in having to pay it back?
To add to the body of posts regarding timelines for OPM to finalize retirements. Here is one with court orders.
DoD DRP 2.0 with a VERA. 9/30/2025 separation date. All of my time was with DoD. No military buyback, but I did have a break in service which I had to buy my time back from. That was completed years before DRP was even imagined.
AL payout: Came with my last paycheck in October, 2025.
OPM notified or retirement received: 10/24/2025
OPM received retirement application package: 10/27/2025
Interim Pay issued: 11/21/2025
Assigned to Specialist: 11/25/2025
Case Finalized: 5/15/2026
Overall, the timeline was in-line with what my agency retirement specialist told me it would be. Actually, a little faster. But, I think I just ended up with an experienced agency retirement specialist.
Good luck to everyone!
Edit to correct. I fat-fingered the Case Finalized line and had the wrong year.
Anyone know the time line for retirement is finalized after it is assigned to a specialist?
Are there any attorneys in the reddit? Are we able to file a lawsuit? I will send this across other reddit for assistance- but seriously maybe a class action? I've been waiting since 1 Oct 25 for a simple ORA retirement.
9/30 DRP 2. My application has been at OPM since February. Online Services says it's in Adjudication stage but doesn't show as assigned to a specialist. I know that OPM has to contact SSA to get the offset amount. Any idea how long that takes?
When you retire on VERA, does the FERS supplement start when you are eligible for regular retirement? For example if I accept VERA at 50, but am not eligible for regular retirement until 57, will FERS supplement start at 57? Thanks.
USPS - Not Sure
USCIS - Not Sure
Separation: 10/05/25
Mailed FERS application: Dec 2025
Received: Jan 2, 2026
Logged: Jan 29, 2026
Assigned to Specialist: end of April beginning of May 2026 (can't get them to tell me just going off my call timeline).
Direct Deposit: Still waiting
Wait so far: 107 days
Notes: I am trying to figure out what is going on with my application. I worked for USPS and left in 2019.. One would have thought that my FERS information would be in a digital database all these years but apparently that's wishful thinking.
I have made it to the assigned specialist part and request for 3100. I am asking anyone who has experience dual agency requests or USPS 3100 wait times for any information on how your FERS refund processed?
If anyone else has any multi-agency requests can you tell me about your process?
I called OPM and was told a request was made for a 3100 from Civil Aeronautics Board but that makes absolutely no sense because the CAB was dissolved in 1985. I wasn't even old enough to work when it existed.
Any help would greatly be appreciated!!
Finally received notification of finalized. Too long imo but relieved and thankful for the geds that are still working for the people.
I found these types of posts encouraging and helpful, so I will share my timeline.
DRP 2, retired (vera) on 12/31/25, DOI.
First interim payment in mid-March. It appears they calculated the interim payment amount by referencing my most recent 3 years of service, so my interim annuity payment was only about 43% of what I would eventually get for my annuity (not counting the supplement, which is a separate animal).
Assigned to a specialist on April 14th. I had a more complicated retirement as my high three were not my last 3 years of service, and they had to do some digging and put it all together.
Finalized on May 12th, back annuity pay with fers supplement received the next day.
My calculation for my annuity and supplement didn't quite match their calculation, but it was very close - I figured I messed up a bit somewhere, but the difference was so small as to not bother with it. So thank you OPM employee(s) who processed my retirement.
On a side note, check your tax withholding. They completely whiffed on my federal withholding instructions, but it is quite simple to change it on the opm services online website, which I did and received a confirmation email it was changed the following day. So no big deal and easily fixed.
DRP 2 VERA. Separation 9/30/2025. My estimated catch up payment for period 10/1/2025 thru 3/31/2026 was $16k. It just appeared. No paper record sent. Should have been $9k. So now I have to pay back $7k over three years. I guess this was an interest-free loan of $7k for the inconvenience of waiting six months for any monetary payment at all.
