Delores A. Delos Santos v. Office of Personnel Management

FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge.

The widow of a deceased former government employee challenges the refusal of the Merit Systems Protection Board (“Board”) to review a regulation of the Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”), pursuant to which that agency denied her survivor’s annuity benefits. OPM did so because it previously had denied the employee retirement annuity benefits, on the ground that the employee did not have sufficient service to qualify for them. We hold that we lack jurisdiction to review the Board’s ruling, and therefore dismiss the appeal.

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The petitioner, Mrs. Delos Santos, is…