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DOGE: Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania.

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Are you illiterate?

Congress requires paper copies. A surprisingly large number of government workers were never in a computer system. The facility is efficient and secure for what they’re asked to do.

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“EFFICIENT”

“As of the end of March 2023, the number of unprocessed retirement claims pending at OPM’s underground facility sat around 23,000 – which is good by their standards. The inventory of retirement claims in OPM’s backlog was over 60,000 at its highest point in 2012.”

 
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It would be great if Musk and all the engineers he employs could build a system to update this process. There was a lot of wasted money back in 08 when the system built to go digital failed.
 
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