| 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 retirement benefit owed a government employee goes unclaimed and
unpaid. Unclaimed retirement funds are not
declared abandoned unless unclaimed by the employee's
115th birthday or 30 years after death, and virtually
no effort is made to find lost employees owed
government pension benefits.
Unclaimed
federal employee 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 employee retirement funds, pensions and government benefits, complete the form below.
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