Post-Retirement
Questions and answers
Annuitants (federal retirees, survivors, spouses, former spouses, and children) can manage their annuity accounts online using OPM tools.
You will receive a welcome letter in the mail from OPM Retirement Services when we approve your application to start receiving your recurring monthly payment. Your welcome letter includes your claim number.
Within a few days of receiving your welcome letter, you will receive a letter with a temporary password to access OPM Retirement Services Online.
You will have 30 days to sign into your online account with your temporary password before it expires. Once you are signed in, you will be prompted to create a new password and create security questions and answers.
If your temporary password has expired, contact us to send you a new password so you can start using your online account.
To protect annuitants' security, OPM manages all online account creation. Contact us if you need help accessing your online account. OPM Retirement Services Online allows you to do the following:
- View your monthly annuity payment statement
- View your annual summary of payment
- Verify life insurance enrollment (FEGLI)
- View your 1099-R tax form
- Change your federal and state income tax withholdings
- View or print your retirement card
- Check your interim retirement pay status
- Start or change direct deposit
- Start or change a checking or savings account allotment
- Start or change allotment to an organization
- Request a copy of your annuity booklet
- Update your profile and contact information
- Change your mailing address
- Participate in the Disability Earnings Survey (if applicable)
What you can do without an account:
- Report a missing annuity payment
- Report an annuitant’s death
- Report a federal employee’s death
- Self-certify student enrollment