If you are enrolled in Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) or Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB), your medical claims, along with those of your spouse and any covered dependents, are among the more than eight million people whose data is already flowing into a federal system that has drawn months of congressional scrutiny.
The privacy dispute is not settled. Six Senate Democrats sent Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Scott Kupor a follow-up letter on September 16, 2026, arguing that the privacy protections OPM has put in place still fall short, and gave the agency a September 25 deadline to respond in writing.
The letter does not describe a new OPM proposal. It is a response to the modified System of Records Notice (SORN) OPM published on June 23, 2026, which was covered in detail here in July. Nothing about the underlying data collection has changed as a result of the senators’ letter. What has changed is the pressure on OPM to justify it, and lawmakers have now set a specific date by which they want an answer.
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