Beneficiary Forms
It is critically important to keep beneficiary forms updated in your
Official Personnel Folder (OPF). You must submit a separate form for
each type of benefit to which you are entitled:
- Unpaid Compensation (Form SF-1152),
- FERS/Federal Employees' Retirement System (Form SF-3102),
- CSRS/Civil Service Retirement System (Form SF-2808),
- FEGLI/Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance (Form SF-2817),
- and TSP/Thrift Savings Plan (Form TSP-3).
Most of these forms can be found here.
You may change or update these forms at any time. You may also designate the same or different beneficiaries on each form. If no form is on file, the natural order of precedence applies, that is:
- widow or widower;
- child or children, with the share of any deceased child distributed among the descendants of that child,
- parents in equal shares;
- executor or administrator of your estate;
- other next of kin under the laws of the State in which you live at the time of your death.
Employees should review their OPF's to determine that beneficiary information is correct. The ITA Office of Human Resources Management's Records Office, located in Room 7409, is open daily from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. for this purpose. All needed beneficiary forms are available from this office.