The Postal Service will offer employees a new method to stay up to date during this yearâs open season: text messaging. Open season is the annual period when employees can change their health benefits or enroll in a new plan. This yearâs open season runs from Nov. 11-Dec. 9. Employees can sign up to receive…
Objective: We performed procedures agreed upon by the U.S. Office of Personnel Managementâs (OPM) Inspector General and the OPMâs Chief Financial Officer. This attestation engagement is an annual requirement of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. Our objective was to assist the OPM in assessing the reasonableness of U.S. Postal Service employee health benefits,…
The Postal Service is mailing all employees a personal benefits statement that details their overall compensation package. When you receive your statement, USPS wants you to pay close attention to the following information: ⢠What you paid in 2018 for health benefits. Many employees pay for more health insurance than they need, often giving up…
Opening soon. Reminder: Open season, the annual period when Postal Service employees can change their health benefits or enroll in a new plan, begins Monday, Nov. 12. A variety of health, vision and dental coverage is available. On Tuesday, Nov. 13, the Postal Service will hold the first of four webinars for employees who want…
The Postal Service is mailing every employee a personal benefits statement that details his or her overall compensation package. When you receive your statement, USPS wants you to pay close attention to these three sections: ⢠What you paid for in 2017 for health benefits. Many employees pay for more health insurance than they need,…
This is deja vu for me. During the Reagan years we had an exodus of employees before the effective date of each retirement cut. CSRS retirees were slapped with the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), which reduced or eliminated their Social Security benefits. Annuity COLAs were reduced to one per…
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on July 12, 2016: H.R. 5714 would change the laws that govern the operation of the Postal Service (USPS), restructure how the federal government pays for health benefits for federal employees and annuitants, and alter how the federal government calculates the contributions that…
If Postal Service employees want to change their health benefits or enroll in a new plan, they must act now. The annual open season benefits enrollment period ends Monday, Dec. 14, at 11:59 p.m. EST. This will be most employeesâ last chance this year to consider the new options, such as Self Plus One, which…
