NARFE Calls FEHB Premiums Increase ‘Relatively Modest’
The average premiums under the FEHB are going up 6.2% in 2017. NARFE President Richard G. Thissen called the increase in enrollee costs “relatively modest.”
The average premiums under the FEHB are going up 6.2% in 2017. NARFE President Richard G. Thissen called the increase in enrollee costs “relatively modest.”
Federal employees and retirees will face a series of difficult decisions over the next month as they think about funding their benefit contributions in the midst of rising costs.
Federal retirees could be facing a “perfect storm” of events that could collectively cause costs for their benefits to rise sharply in 2017. NARFE has been campaigning to minimize the potential negative impact on retired federal employees.
A growing uproar over rising premiums for the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program is putting increased pressure on Congress to take action.
The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) to various Congressional committees requesting hearings to examine the dramatic increases federal employees in the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program are facing.
Enrollees in the Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program are going to be facing a steep premium increase later this fall. OPM is providing those affected with information about their choices to deal with the cost increase.
A series of actions are leading probable declines in the take home pay of federal retirees in 2017. Current federal employees, however, are on pace to see their largest pay increase since 2010.
The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association has sharply criticized plans by the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform to require postal retirees, their spouses and survivors to enroll in Medicare Part B or forfeit their coverage in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
The House version of a postal reform bill in Congress is better than the Senate version according to NARFE, although it thinks neither is ideal. What effect do these bills have on enrollment options in Medicare, and which federal retirees would be impacted?
A House Committee hearing last week looked at reforming the health benefits for postal employees in an effort to deal with the Postal Service’s massive and ongoing financial losses. Could moving postal workers to Medicare ultimately force other federal employees onto this system as well?