OPM also put additional emphasis on the responsibilities of carriers to identify and weed out ineligible persons being covered as family members. Image: Mariusz S. Jurgielewicz/Shutterstock.com By:FEDweek Staff OPM has issued its annual “call letter” on federal employee health insurance, which ...
2024 and continuing through December 9, 2024. This is the time of year that federal employees and retirees must make choices for health, dental and vision insurance for themselves and their family members.
Family members of employees and retirees also were eligible.29 OPM was allowed to contract or approve the following types of health benefit plans to participate in FEHB:30 Service Benefit Plan—one government-wide plan (offering two levels of benefits) under which payment is made by an insurer ...
You can choose self plus one even if you have more than one family member who would be eligible, but remember that doing so means that the other family member or members would need to get their health coverage elsewhere. You can change the designation of which family member is covered durin...