Federal Retirement Process Goes Digital, Targeting Paper Pileup

The federal personnel agency has launched an online system for processing retirement applications, ending a paper-based method that had remained largely unchanged for decades.

The rollout is one of the more tangible changes from a larger effort to modernize government operations under the Department of Government Efficiency, a high-profile initiative championed early on by Elon Musk and other tech figures brought into the administration. President Donald Trump cited the project as one of DOGE’s top accomplishments as Musk wrapped his stint as a special government employee at the White House last week.

The Office of Personnel Management’s new retirement ...