{"id":1724458,"date":"2022-11-04T06:20:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T10:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724458"},"modified":"2022-11-04T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T12:33:45","slug":"border-patrol-retirees-face-months-long-delays-in-receiving-pension-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-patrol-retirees-face-months-long-delays-in-receiving-pension-payouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Patrol Retirees Face Months-Long Delays in Receiving Pension Payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fborder-patrol-retirees-face-months-long-delays-in-receiving-pension-payouts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724458&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republicans are demanding answers after learning that the federal government has been stalling on paying out the pensions for retiring Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers.<\/p>\n<p>In a Nov. 1 letter obtained by The Epoch Times, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) unveiled GOP findings about the long delays in approving pension payments owed to CBP agents.<\/p>\n<p>The letter is addressed to U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-office-of-personnel-management\">Office of Personnel Management<\/a> (OPM) Director\u00a0Kiran Ahuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received reports of unacceptable delays in the processing of retirement paperwork for\u00a0retirees from U.S. Customs and Border Protection,\u201d Biggs wrote. \u201cThese delays have resulted in months\u00a0of uncertainty and financial hardship for some of America\u2019s finest, many of whom spent\u00a0decades putting their lives on the line to keep their fellow citizens safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biggs noted that while OPM public information suggests that it takes around 60 days to process a CBP agent\u2019s retirement, OPM staff have said that the process takes closer to 90 days. But this reported figure also fails to capture the waiting times some CBP agents have endured, Biggs said.<\/p>\n<p>Biggs related accounts from recent CBP retirees who \u201chave reported\u00a0waiting as long as 13 months for OPM to process retirement paperwork and begin payments of\u00a0full monthly annuities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This uncertain waiting period can cause economic hardship for CBP retirees, Biggs said. Though they receive a partial annuity while their paperwork is being processed, and are paid what they are owed in full after successful processing, the months-long delays are leaving CBP retirees and their spouses with uncertain income.<\/p>\n<p>The partial annuity received at the beginning of the process has also been reported to be extremely low for some agents, with some receiving as little as 11 percent of what they were owed while waiting months for their retirements to be processed.<\/p>\n<p>The challenges that these delays cause, Biggs added, \u201care compounded\u00a0by the fact that Americans are dealing with historic levels of inflation, exacerbated by this\u00a0Administration\u2019s policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, consumer prices are just under 10 percent higher than they were a year ago, with essentials like gasoline being the hardest hit. Republicans have attributed this increase to the liberal spending by Democrats in the 117th Congress. Three bills alone\u2014the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and the $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act\u2014have come out to a cost of around $3.84 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>Biggs said that Republicans\u2019 efforts to assist their constituents facing such delays have been \u201cmet with silence by OPM.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEfforts to reach OPM congressional liaisons by phone and by email have gone\u00a0unanswered, and the OPM congressional portal provides congressional staff with no\u00a0information about the status of cases submitted,\u201d Biggs said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFederal employees, especially those who have risked their lives for this country, deserve better,\u201d the letter concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The findings by Biggs and other Republicans come amid unprecedented levels of illegal immigration via the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Americans in border towns have reported numerous encounters with drug and sex traffickers entering at inadequately defended points along the border. Several have told reporters that the problem has become so severe that they can\u2019t leave their homes without a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have blamed the record-breaking influx of illegal aliens on policies pushed by President Joe Biden and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether the delays are the result of negligence or misconduct on the part of the OPM, or if they represent a more targeted attack on Border Patrol agents.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-joseph-lord\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ttl7dayRJQ_WEB_JosephLord-copy.jpeg\" alt=\"Joseph Lord\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Joseph Lord is a congressional reporter for The Epoch Times.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are demanding answers after learning that the federal government has been stalling on paying out the pensions for retiring Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officers.In a Nov. 1 letter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1065237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1065237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}