In 2025, FEHB enrollees will see largest health premium increase in over a decade
PSHB enrollees, on average, will pay $20 more toward their biweekly health care premiums next year.
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USPS Retiree E-Newsletter – August 2024
Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Updates, Immunization Awareness, Postal News
Federal Register: OPM Proposes Additional Requirements and Clarifications on PSHB
SUMMARY: May 24, 2024 The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking to clarify and establish additional requirements regarding the Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program, which was established pursuant to the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022. This proposed rule expands on previous regulations concerning the PSHB Program and…
OPM: Interim final rule on Establishment of Postal Service Health Benefits Program; request for comments
AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management. ACTION: Interim final rule; request for comments. SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing an interim final rule with comment period to establish and administer the Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program pursuant to the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 (PSRA). Under the statute, OPM must establish…
U.S. House panel to take up Postal Service reform measures
By David Shepardson – May 10, 2021 The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday will consider a pair of bills to reform the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service, a document seen by Reuters shows. Representative Carolyn Maloney, the Democrat who chairs the panel, circulated draft legislation earlier this year to address some…
My view on on proposed postal legislation – by Thomas Benson
The USPS may finally get the much-needed help it’s been seeking. With HR 2382 now having a majority of support in Congress, Congress has the chance to fix the harm they have created. Although HR 2382 is very vague in its description, it will eliminate the pre-funding that has crippled the USPS. By my estimation…
NARFE: Postal Reform Legislation Update
Legislation to reform the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been introduced early in the 115th Congress in the House. NARFE opposes the bill, H.R. 756, and is aggressively lobbying against the bill in its current form. Postal reform legislation has not yet been introduced in the Senate this Congress. Summary of H.R. 756, The Postal…
APWU: Celebrating an Important 50th Anniversary
Web News Article #: 148-2015 07/27/2015 – On July 30 – the 50th anniversary of Medicare – APWU members will join with others across the country to celebrate the program that has helped more than 53 million seniors and disabled Americans obtain healthcare. “It is important to commemorate Medicare’s 50th birthday, because this great program…