The retired fed behind this site
I’m Jay Sasportas. Thirty-three years of federal service — starting as a cartographer at the agency that became the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, then twenty-one years at the FBI as a digital forensic examiner. I retired September 30, 2025.
Then I joined the queue. Months of interim pay at a partial rate, a status page that never changed, and no way to tell what was normal, what was late, and what was worth a phone call. OPM finalized my case in May 2026, a little over seven months after my last day. By then I was already building the tool I kept wishing existed.
Why this site exists
Fed Retirement Tools exists because the wait is opaque and most of the information around it is scattered, stale, or engineered to scare you. The tracker decodes where your case actually stands. The numbers page keeps the full monthly series OPM itself doesn’t publish as history. The Limbo Kit is the set of letters and checklists I’d hand a friend. None of it requires a phone call, a webinar, or a consultation.
How we work
- Every number here is OPM’s own, dated, from the primary source. When we don’t know, we say so.
- No fear marketing. No countdown timers, no “act now.” If a page here ever scares you, we broke our own rule — email us.
- Tools and information, not advice. We show you the timeline and the form; what you do with your money is between you and a licensed professional.
- Not affiliated with OPM or any federal agency.
Questions, corrections, or a wait story of your own: hello@fedretiretools.com.