Disability Retirement

Snail mail, envelope with three perforated tabs to remove.

Do you know your CSA# Date?

Mine was assigned 10/21/2019 and I’m really hoping for an approval soon.

Thanks!

Greetings,

Thanks for sharing. That is pretty phenomenal and sure seems like they have the backlog well under control. 3 months is very reasonable. Now if they can get the appeals and finalizations down to that, we could close this forum... LOL

S/
K

OPM claims backlog is growing but say they are doing them faster. Let’s hope so!

“The backlog went from 17,882 to 18,390, a 2.84% increase. This came thanks to 7,822 new claims coming in during November, considerably higher than the 7,044 from October and also almost 5% higher than November 2018.

OPM processed more claims in November than it did the previous month but it did so on a slightly slower pace, 62 days on average versus 59 days in October.

The latest complete data from OPM are included below

Claims Received Claims Processed Inventory (Steady state goal is 13,000) Monthly Average Processing Time in Days FYTD Average Processing Time in Days
Oct-18 9,012 6,911 19,729 63 63
Nov-18 7,510 8,077 19,162 61 62
Dec-18 5,782 6,925 18,019 60 61
Jan-19 13,264 8,162 23,121 58 60
Feb-19 10,792 10,543 23,370 46 57
Mar-19 10,048 13,217 20,201 50 55
Apr-19 6,993 9,392 17,802 56 55
May-19 7,877 8,451 17,228 62 56
Jun-19 8,201 6,928 18,501 60 56
Jul-19 8,000 8,088 18,413 55 56
Aug-19 8,878 9,715 17,576 50 56
Sep-19 7,456 7,656 17,376 57 56
Oct-19 7,044 6,538 17,882 59 59
Nov-19 7,822 7,314 18,390 62 61
*Disability determinations are only included in the pending number after approval.

**Pending retirement cases produced in less than 60 days, on average took 36 days to complete; whereas cases that were produced in more than 60 days, on average, took 130 days to complete.



OPM backlog artivle.

Just curious. Do peeps who submit regular retirement go thru waits this long or are they processes quicker/separately....refering to after DR approved.

A Disability Retirement and a Regular Retirement are two very different animals. Although they are performed by the same Agency, they both follow different rules with the Disability Retirement contingent on many other factors. In welcoming 'Overmedium' I wonder if there's was a Regular OPM Retirement?

My CSA was sent 13 September. Still nothing here. Hoping to hear something soon.

Thank you! Sent early September. Good luck to you!

Your claim went through exceptionally fast, a regular retirement can be approved quickly when a Disability retirement can languish for months. You are very fortunate, let us know how finalization goes!

It will be 28 months for me without a dime from my agency, OWCP, and now OPM. Approved two months ago. This is inexcusable. First time I called OPM I basically was fed a bunch of BS that my person assigned to my finalization had no email, no direct phone, or extension, and not even a name, because giving out a name isn’t allowed. That was basically repeated to me when I waited another week, and called. I am going to call again next week, and ask that since annuitants aren’t supposedly allowed to call, or email OPM staff, that “SHE” ( yes, both times they did manage to say it was a she ), can call, or email me. Anyone have an approval to first interim payment timeline?