clifp
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All of you who have any type of Federal pension I think will now have an answer to why did it take so long to get my full pension paid?
The short answer is because Federal pension are calculated and processed by hand with paper forms in an old limestone mine. They have been trying a failing to automate the process since the 1970s. The Washington Post amazing article is here
You know for all the jokes about Texas plenty of their government system seem to function pretty well.
That process [getting a full check] now takes, on average, at least 61 days. That’s the same amount of time it took in 1977, according to a federal audit from that time. Many state retirement systems, which also handle large loads of employees, do it much faster. Florida takes 47 days. The California teachers’ retirement system takes 23. Texas takes two.
The short answer is because Federal pension are calculated and processed by hand with paper forms in an old limestone mine. They have been trying a failing to automate the process since the 1970s. The Washington Post amazing article is here
You know for all the jokes about Texas plenty of their government system seem to function pretty well.