1 year on lwop-fegli and fehb terminated

Hi,
I'm on perodic roles of OWCP and have been for over a year. Just got letter from usps stating that my health insurance and life insurance have been terminated. Is there anything I need to do? Do I need to send forms in for continued coverage? Aren't they still covered by owcp since they deduct for it?

Are you currently receiving your Compensation pay from OWCP?

If so, then you are correct that they normally deduct your FEHB from your dollar amount. I am not positive but I think it is an automatic thing but for your own good, I would call or write them and have them verify that is the case.

As far as life insurance goes, that is your responsibility to terminate that or, make some sort of election once you are accepted on OWCP. You should have signed some forms through your agency at the time you were terminated concerning this issue.

Again, I would contact my agency and see what is going on with that issue too.

More knowledgeable people will have better answers or more pricise information for you so wait and see what they have to say also.

They haven't informed me that I've been seperated from PO but I have been on owcp rolls for over a year. Do I need to send in report on back of life insurance form to keep it?

I would contact the PO agency and talk to someone in the Human Resource department and see just exactly what is going on.

I have no knowledge as to how they can terminate your insurance unless you were previously advised by them that they would terminate it upon your separation from the PO.

You also need to contact OWCP and find out if they are still deducting your Federal Health Insurance Benefits.

I would call both agencies and get some answers one way or the other.

It would not hurt to write them and get their answers in writing so you know exactly where you stand and what you can do in this matter.

I would do both as soon as possible.

I have been on comp for 19 months and I remember shortly after a year I recieved a letter
stating that the prison (Bureau of Prisons) no longer payed for my half of my blue cross blue shield, it was being taken over by OWCP. Im not sure why your benefits were "Terminated". OWCP should have taken over that responsibilty.

As for the life insurance I think the prison still pays for it, I may be wrong. But come to think of it I have to check it out.

Good Luck,

Irbe

anyyone else get this after a year?
There is a name on the body of it besides hr in greensboro,nc

its egan minnesote

It has been awhile since this happened to me, but I believe your insurance coverage should be "transferred" to OWCP and not "terminated" by the employer, or perhaps both are to take place, as one terminates and the other takes over, but you should receive clear instructions as to what is taking place.

I don't recall exactly how mine went down, but at first I started to receive invoices from Eagan, MN for my portion of the insurance premuims and suspected something was amiss. I did pay a few invoices to insure coverage, but also contacted my Senator, who made an inquiry on my behalf and the situation was rectified and my insurance coverage was transferred to OWCP. It took an additonal 9 months for the employer to reimburse the payments I submitted.

Also be aware that the premiums will now increase to the OPM rate paid by other Federal employees and not the Postal rate you pay now. You are to be provided refunds of these overpayments from the Post Office every 3 months, which could amount to approximately $100 per month depending on your coverage. You should receive your first refund automatically after about 6 months and if you don't ask here about it. See chapter 4 in this handbook and you may want to investigate exactly what is going on with your "termination" and insure it has been "transferred" to OWCP and you may also find that information this handbook.

http://nalc.org/depart/cau/pdf/manuals/el505fdr/505url.pdf

Fly on the wall: what about life insurance-do you send form in for continuatuion-or is that automatic

It has been such a long time for me that I have forgotten exactly how this went down. I never received any invoices for the life insurance and think that gets transferred just about immediately if you are LWOP and receiving benefits and not after 1 year. All I recall receiving is some form for health insurance, I believe it to be SF 2810 or something similar and what exactly did you receive?

2810 is what I got. there also is form stating to continue recieving life insurance to mail it to a address in new York.
They say health and life insurance terminated by Po. for 365 days of lwop.

The SF 2810 is used for quite a few reasons and one of them being tranfers to OWCP. Here's the form and the directions clearly show the agency how to transfer your benefits, so if yours are being terminated according to this form, they have made an error and you should act now and contact your employer and advise them that they are to transfer your enrollment rather than terminate it. I cannot help you with the life insurance, but where exactly are they telling you to mail it, as I do not recall having to do this?

http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf2810.pdf

office of federal employees group life insurance (ofegli)
200 park avenue
new york, ny 10166-0188

On health insurance-after three calls to shared services-they said they have to terminate first then owcp picks up insurance-waiting for ce to call.
someone else told me this to-

not sure about life insurance

not sure about any of this-

I also approx.one year after being off received a 2810 that was already filled out by the owcp telling me my medical benefits were transferred to them and I noticed in my check every month it was about 100.00 less and then I did start getting those payments back about 6 months later. Now I am curious also about my life insurance. This form doesn't mention it. I didn't even think of it until I read this message. Good luck to you.

Postal recipients of OWCP pay a lesser premium for health benefits than do other federal injured workers. For the first year after you are placed on the periodic roll, the Postal Service pays the premium at the lesser postal rate. Thereafter, once OWCP starts deducting, they do so at a higher rate. The Postal Service is suppose to reimburse to you the difference between the rate deduced by OWCP and the lower rate paid by postal employees. Contact Shared Services for more details.