Tens of thousands of government workers are preparing to leave the federal workforce Tuesday, the final day for many who took the government’s “fork in the road” resignation offer earlier this year.

Among those are as many as 60,000 retirees who will now anxiously wait for their federal retirement benefits to kick in – a process that could take months and is potentially impacted by the looming government shutdown.

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"There's no question there's going to be a surge. We're doing everything we can to try and address it,” Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor told the News4 I-Team.

Kupor, who was confirmed to the post in July said roughly 150,000 federal workers took the Elon Musk-led Deferred Resignati

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