OPM Halts Work on Retirement Calculator
Source: By Stephen Barr, Washington Post, Friday, May 30, 2008
The Office of Personnel Management sent a "stop work" letter to the contractor developing a software system to calculate retirement benefits for federal employees, officials said yesterday.
The contractor, Hewitt Associates, was given 10 days to propose a remedy for flaws and defects uncovered by the OPM during tests of the benefits calculator. Only five of 61 functions worked as intended during recent testing.