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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) plans to finalize a rule to allow agencies to approve waivers of the normal payment limitations on recruitment and relocation incentives, so that agencies have access to higher payment limitations based on a critical need without requesting approval from OPM. Currently, agencies have the authority to approve a recruitment or relocation incentive without OPM approval for payments of up to 25 percent of an employee’s annual rate of basic pay times the number of years in a service agreement (not to exceed 4 years or 100 percent of annual basic pay). Under a waiver, agencies could approve a recruitment or relocation incentive of up to 50 percent of an employee’s annual rate of basic pay times the number of years in a service agreement (not to exceed 100 percent of annual basic pay).