Feds' mistake costs South Holland retiree more than $49,000 in pension payments

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Feds' mistake costs South Holland retiree more than $49,000 in pension payments
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Beatrice Fells retired from the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2020 after 41 years of work.

But the feds are stiffing her on part of her pension money, even though they acknowledge a mistake in their system.

"I don't sleep. I don't sleep!" she said, shaking her head because the V.A. made an"error in [her] retirement plan coverage" and despite the department's acknowledgment of that mistake back in November 2020 in a letter to Fells, the South Holland woman's pension payments continue to come in nowhere close to the $3,556 she expected.

"She's being extremely patient whereas I am not," said Karen Stingley, Fells' niece. She's been helping Fells fight the United Stateswhich needs to process the retirement plan error found by the VA. After more than a year and a half of emails back and forth, nothing is fixed. CBS 2 tried asking the Feds what was causing the delay but no one answered our call at the OPM Office of Communications. We sent six email inquiries about Fells' predicament and gave OPM several weeks to respond to us. No one did.

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