Pre-Retirement
Questions and answers
OPM takes the following steps to process your claim for retirement benefits.
- Obtains missing information from your retirement documents;
- Determines your eligibility for an annuity and continued health and life insurance coverages;
- Computes the amount of your annuity;
- Sends you materials concerning:
- your survivor benefit election;
- the alternative form of annuity;
- rollover to an IRA; or,
- if you are a FERS MRA+10 retiree, your annuity commencing date.
- Authorizes your annuity payment by the Department of the Treasury; and
- Sends you an annuity statement.