Do not know if it is going to change anything, but I have filed a DAIG complaint with the support of my local IG and CoC against the PEB/PDA. The National Capital Region PEB (where my case went through) and the USPDA are actually in the same building in Northern VA and utilize the same "Customer Service Personnel". After having my case "dropped" from the system in January and sitting idle for 3 months before the Personnel Management Officer at HRC National Capital Region checked and saw that not only was I not in the system, but none of the "Customer Service Personnel" at the PEB bothered to check whenever my PEBLO sent an inquiry. If they had, it would not have taken 107 days to find out I was no longer in the system.
So that brings me to the PDA..... 8 of us from my state have had our cases submitted to the PDA for Retirement Orders in the last 70 days. 2 cases submitted before mine had theirs completed in 13 & 16 days, 4 cases submitted AFTER mine were completed in 1, 6, 7 & 15 days and yet I am on day 50. An analyst at the PDA has had my case for over three weeks and when my PEBLO sends a request for an update, the response is "<name> case with analyst".
So yes, there are others that have been waiting longer and I DO NOT feel as though mine should be put ahead of theirs, BUT there should not be others that have theirs submitted WEEKS after mine that get completed in few days. If there is a valid reason that someone needs to be expedited, then by all means have it expedited...... but I know for a fact that the other 7 from my state that have received their orders (and some are now retired) did NOT have their cases expedited.
The system is broken, going through a Congressional or calling the PDA constantly is NOT going to help. If you are getting screwed around by these folks and it is not just a case of being impatient and not wanting to wait 2-3 weeks, then file a DAIG complaint. It is too late for us, but if enough people go through the DAIG then hopefully they will be forced to fix the system for those who come after us.