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The Office of Personnel Management published a final rule amending critical position pay authority regulations and a notice establishing a matching program with Treasury's Do Not Pay system.
The Office of Personnel Management published a final rule amending critical position pay authority regulations and a notice establishing a matching program with Treasury's Do Not Pay system. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/personnel-management-office/#s-2026-08-26
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RulePersonnel Management Office
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is amending its regulations governing the critical position pay (CPP) authority to establish level I of the Executive Schedule as the default maximum critical pay rate, with higher rates subject to written approval by the Director of OPM. The final rule eliminates non-statutory caps and approval criteria; addresses the use of service agreements; clarifies that reductions or terminations of CPP are not adverse actions or subject to grievance or appeal rights; and clarifies the treatment of critical pay rates as basic pay. This final rule simplifies and better aligns OPM's regulations with governing law and delegated authority.
- ○Takes effect 9 days ago
91 FR 54937FR Doc. 2026-17442official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
NoticePersonnel Management Office
In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance on computer matching, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice of the establishment of a new matching program. Pursuant to the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA), OPM is establishing a matching program with the Department of the Treasury's Do Not Pay (DNP) Working System, which is administered by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. The matching program will enable OPM Retirement Services to compare records maintained in OPM systems of records with records maintained in the DNP Working System for the purposes of identifying and preventing improper payments and conducting related recovery activities by verifying pre-payment eligibility through Do Not Pay. OPM has determined that this matching program satisfies the eligibility requirements for the waiver of the computer matching agreement requirement under OMB Memorandum M-25-32.
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91 FR 55128FR Doc. 2026-17369official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
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The Office of Personnel Management published five corrective rules addressing errors in regulations on reduction in force, suitability appeals, probationary periods, and civil service incentives.
The Office of Personnel Management published five corrective rules addressing errors in regulations on reduction in force, suitability appeals, probationary periods, and civil service incentives. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/personnel-management-office/#s-2026-08-25
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RuleSIGNIFICANT · E.O. 12866Personnel Management Office
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a final rule in the Federal Register on August 3, 2026, concerning reduction in force appeals. That document contained typographical and citation errors in the regulatory text. This document corrects the final rule.
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91 FR 54796FR Doc. 2026-17338official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
RuleSIGNIFICANT · E.O. 12866Personnel Management Office
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a final rule in the Federal Register on August 3, 2026, concerning suitability action appeals. That document contained typographical and structural errors in the regulatory text. This document corrects the final rule.
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91 FR 54798FR Doc. 2026-17337official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
RuleSIGNIFICANT · E.O. 12866Personnel Management Office
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a final rule in the Federal Register on August 3, 2026, streamlining probationary and trial period appeals. That document contained typographical and clerical errors in the regulatory text. This document corrects the final rule. This document also makes a technical amendment to OPM regulations to conform its appeal-rights reference to the final rule.
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91 FR 54793FR Doc. 2026-17336official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
RuleSIGNIFICANT · E.O. 12866Personnel Management Office
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a final rule in the Federal Register on August 3, 2026, concerning reduction in force. That document contained typographical and clerical errors in amendatory instructions and in the regulatory text. This document corrects the final rule.
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91 FR 54794FR Doc. 2026-17335official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
RuleSIGNIFICANT · E.O. 12866Personnel Management Office
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is correcting technical and conforming errors arising from two recent final rules: "Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service," published February 6, 2026 and effective March 9, 2026, and "Recruitment and Relocation Incentive Waivers," published December 15, 2025 and effective February 13, 2026. The corrections make no substantive change to the regulations.
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91 FR 54796FR Doc. 2026-17334official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
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Office of Personnel Management solicited public comment on reinstatement of two expired information collection requests for death benefits and court-ordered spousal benefits forms.
Office of Personnel Management solicited public comment on reinstatement of two expired information collection requests for death benefits and court-ordered spousal benefits forms. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/personnel-management-office/#s-2026-08-20
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Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the reinstatement of an expired information collection request (ICR), Application for Death Benefits/Documentation and Elections in Support of Application for Death Benefits When Deceased Was an Employee at the Time of Death (CSRS).
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91 FR 53905FR Doc. 2026-16941official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
NoticePersonnel Management Office
Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the reinstatement of an expired information collection request (ICR), Application for Court- Ordered Benefits for Former Spouses, Standard Form 3119.
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91 FR 53905FR Doc. 2026-16940official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
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The Office of Personnel Management published notice of a re-established matching program with the Social Security Administration for verifying retirement benefit eligibility.
The Office of Personnel Management published notice of a re-established matching program with the Social Security Administration for verifying retirement benefit eligibility. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/personnel-management-office/#s-2026-08-19
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In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-108, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice of the re- establishment of a matching program between OPM and the Social Security Administration (SSA) under Computer Matching Agreement (CMA) No. 1045. The purpose of the matching program is to enable SSA to disclose wage and self-employment income information to OPM for use in determining continued eligibility for certain retirement and survivor benefits subject to statutory earnings limitations.
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91 FR 53675FR Doc. 2026-16849official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
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The Office of Personnel Management published final rules establishing hazardous duty pay differentials for prescribed wildland fire activities and updating obsolete Civil Service Rules provisions.
The Office of Personnel Management published final rules establishing hazardous duty pay differentials for prescribed wildland fire activities and updating obsolete Civil Service Rules provisions. — via Downstream, https://downstream.sh/daily/agency/personnel-management-office/#s-2026-08-14
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RuleSIGNIFICANT · E.O. 12866Personnel Management Office
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule to add prescribed (planned) wildland fire duties as covered activities triggering payment of Hazardous Duty Pay (HDP) for General Schedule (GS) employees and Environmental Differential Pay (EDP) for Federal Wage System (FWS) employees. The final rule authorizes a 25 percent differential for GS and FWS employees participating as a member of a firefighting crew engaged in activities on the fireline directly involving the implementation and control of prescribed wildland fires.
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91 FR 52479FR Doc. 2026-16687official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
RulePersonnel Management Office
Pursuant to the President's direction in Executive Order 14410, Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a direct final rule to update and amend obsolete and outdated provisions of the Civil Service Rules that do not substantively affect agency operations.
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- ○Takes effect in 39 days
91 FR 52475FR Doc. 2026-16630official PDF↗federalregister.gov↗
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