Open Season 2025: Invest in You. Your Benefits, Your Choice: November 10 – December 8

Open Season 2025: Invest in You. Your Benefits, Your Choice: November 10 – December 8

Open Season begins on November 10, 2025, and ends on December 8, 2025 ...
OPM Details Coverage Changes, Plan Dropouts for FEHB/PSHB in 2026

OPM Details Coverage Changes, Plan Dropouts for FEHB/PSHB in 2026

OPM has spelled out more details of health insurance coverage changes and plan availability for the 2026 plan year, with several increases ...
Understanding Your 2026 Federal Health Benefits Options: FEHB, PSHB, and FEDVIP

Understanding Your 2026 Federal Health Benefits Options: FEHB, PSHB, and FEDVIP

Together, these programs continue to provide millions of federal and postal employees, retirees, and their families with access to comprehensive, ...
Federal and postal workers to see double-digit health care premium increases again next year

Federal and postal workers to see double-digit health care premium increases again next year

Enrollees in the new Postal Service Health Benefits Program, which replaced the U.S. Postal Service’s previous insurance offerings last fall, ...
Lawmakers sound alarm on administration of USPS health care program

Lawmakers sound alarm on administration of USPS health care program

The Office of Personnel Management still has less than half of the IT staff needed to support postal workers’ employer-sponsored ...
Lawmakers press OPM on ‘critical’ staffing, funding issues in Postal insurance program

Lawmakers press OPM on ‘critical’ staffing, funding issues in Postal insurance program

Less than two months away from this fall’s Open Season, Democrats in Congress are raising concerns that the Office of ...
An IG report flags deep resource risks in the postal health benefits program

An IG report flags deep resource risks in the postal health benefits program

A year after launching the Postal Service Health Benefits Program, the Office of Personnel Management is facing critical resource shortfalls ...
Trump Administration Quietly Blocks Gender-Affirming Care For Adults On Federal Health Plans

Trump Administration Quietly Blocks Gender-Affirming Care For Adults On Federal Health Plans

President Donald Trump’s Week 1 executive order blocking federal funds from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to children also included a provision ...
Postal insurance program risks ‘operational failure’ due to OPM staffing shortages

Postal insurance program risks ‘operational failure’ due to OPM staffing shortages

Staffing vacancies and funding losses at the Office of Personnel Management are putting the near-new Postal Service Health Benefits program ...