| Located in "The Cave" - a converted
limestone mine 268 feet below ground in Boyers,
Pennsylvania, OPM's Retirement Operations Center has
no estimate and no way of
computing the total value of unclaimed government pension
benefits in its custody. Records on two million former Civil
Service workers are not automated, but rather stored in
some 35,000 file cabinets, by alphabetical order. This
system does not permit sorting by age, a likely indicator
of unclaimed and unpaid benefits.
Benefits
are not declared abandoned unless unclaimed by the
designated recipient's 115th birthday or 30 years after
the date of death, at which time they become unavailable
for any future claim.
For
assistance tracing missing government pension benefits go
to:
Government
Pension Search
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