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Tools built by a retired fed, for retired feds.
Calm, accurate tools for the federal-retirement maze. The parts the official guidance glosses over. Start with the OPM Retirement Tracker.
OPM’s September 2026 report: 8,814 cases in the retirement backlog, the lowest in the four-year record. Average processing 56 days for digital cases, 149 for paper. See the monthly record →
Can’t get a person on OPM’s phone line? We mapped the call from real recordings. Free.
The toolkit
- OPM Retirement TrackerLive
Free tracker: know where you stand in the OPM pipeline while you wait on your annuity.
- OPM Backlog NumbersLive
Every OPM retirement-backlog report since October 2022, saved the day it lands. OPM overwrites last month’s report with the new one. Every month is kept here.
- The OPM DecoderLive
Plain-English answers to the words, letters, and waits in OPM’s process: what each screen and mailing means, and what’s normal at each step.
- The OPM Phone Line GuideLive
How to reach a real person on OPM’s retirement line, built from real calls: past the busy message, through the voice assistant, and the callback that holds your place.
Backlog Watch: OPM’s number, the day it lands.
OPM posts its backlog number once a month and overwrites the old one. We save the new number the day it lands and send it to you.