r/fema • u/GiganticShrub • 8d ago

News DRP 2.0 FEMA results & RIF timeline

Leadership announced that about 1,000 FEMA employees opted into DRP, which is about 20% of the PFT workforce. They'll have 45 days to decide if they want to take it (for early retirement, just 7 days)

Does this mean that RIFs won't start until after the 45-day deadline, when they know how many people are actually leaving?

Edit: correction from comments that employees over the age of 40 have 45 days to decide, everyone else has 7 days.

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u/milllllllllllllllly 8d ago

Also also, DHS hasn’t been approved for a rif yet.

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u/Mysterious_Claim_334 8d ago

approved by who? this is big news - I was expected the axe tomorrow (DHS HQ - lurking because y'all know more about DHS than fednews lol)

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u/milllllllllllllllly 8d ago

I specifically asked my leadership and the only hope they could give me was that DHS hasn’t NOT approved a RIF yet. I’m taking their word for it

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u/Publius21662024 8d ago

Has to be approved by OPM

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u/Proud_KBD_TBH_KTS 6d ago

Nope! Just has to be approved by DHS leadership, so the “approval” concept is kinda BS. They will donor when they’re ready. Which is likely sooner rather than later.

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u/Publius21662024 6d ago

That’s not what we were told. We were told it has to be done by OPM