Human Capital: OPM Needs to Better Analyze and Manage Dual Compensation Waiver Data
Abstract:
Agencies use of reemployed annuitants has increased, with the number of on-board retired uniformed and civil service annuitants increasing from over 95,000 in fiscal year 2004 to around 171,000 in fiscal year 2013 (from about 5 percent to 8 percent of the federal workforce). This is inclusive of reemployed annuitants with and without dual compensation waivers. The Department of Defense (DOD) accounted for about80 percent of rehired annuitants in 2013; ninety-eight percent of which were retired uniformed service members whose retirement pay is not subject to reduction. More than half of the total reemployed civilian annuitants in 2013, including DODs civil service reemployed annuitants, would not be covered under the Office of Personnel Managements (OPM) dual compensation waiver authority.