Boyers

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It strikes me, too, this also helps you as another step toward helping you get out of the cave in Boyers, Pennsylvania eventually, doesn't it?

Yes, that and HR 2.0, of course, which I know we've talked about before.

But yeah, look, everything is about if we can have a canonical record of everybody's, you know, actual employment with the government, everything becomes easier.

So the big news first, OPM just marked a major transition, moving from what was paper stacks of cases to now digital cases.

So where previously cases would be mailed to Boyers, Pennsylvania and go down into the mine, now it's about 95% of applications traveling through the online retirement application.

So things move faster and there's more clarity in tracking the cases today.

Think of the kind of schoolhouse rock treasure map version of things as having four stops.

But the reason that it takes so long for a federal retiree to get his pension, there's a place near my camp.

not near it, on the way to it, that's called Boyers, Pennsylvania.

And what it is is a federal document repository, depository, that is deep down in a cave.

And that's where they process federal government retirement claims and other things.