| Many government employee records at the
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Retirement
Operations Center are not computerized, making it
virtually impossible for the government to determine
when a federal retirement benefit goes unclaimed and
unpaid. Unclaimed retirement funds are not
declared abandoned unless unclaimed by the employee's
115th birthday or 30 years after death; but virtually
no effort is made to find lost employees owed
government pension benefits.
Unclaimed
federal retirement benefits - including Thrift
Savings Plan (TSP) distributions, a
defined-contribution plan created by the Federal
Employees' Retirement System Act of 1986 to
supplement Federal Employees Retirement System
benefits - will not show up in a standard state
unclaimed property search.
For a
search of the Thrift Savings Plan Lost Participant
database and recovery information on other unclaimed
federal retirement funds and benefits, order our
Special Report: Government Employee Retirement Benefits
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