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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Office of Personnel Management and processes the retirement paperwork for the entire federal workforce, and has done since the mid-20th century. Newsweek has contacted the Office of Personnel Management for clarification and comment via email outside of regular working hours.Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk delivers remarks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harnik/GETTY During the press conference and online, Musk spoke of the inefficiency of federal retirements being processed on paper."Well, because all that retirement paperwork is manual on paper. It's manually calculated," Musk said from the Oval Office. "They're written down on a piece of paper. Then it goes down a mine and, like, what do you mean a mine? Like, yeah, there's a limestone mine. We store all the retirement paperwork. And you look at a picture, we will post some pictures afterward."Musk kept to his word. Images were then posted on X, formerly Twitter, of the entrance of the mine.Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania. 700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000 applications per month, which are stored in manila envelopes and cardboard boxes. The retirement process... pic.twitter.com/dXCTgpAWLs— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 11, 2025"Federal employee retirements are processed using paper, by hand, in an old limestone mine in Pennsylvania," the DOGE X account posted on Tuesday. "700+ mine workers operate 230 feet underground to process ~10,000
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