| 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 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
information and assistance tracing a missing pension government pension
go to:
Government
Pension Search (For information
on non-government unclaimed pension benefits go to:
Pension Search )
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