United States

Office of Personnel Management

Retirement and Insurance Service

Benefits Administration Letter

Number: 99-201	Date: January 12,1999

Subject:	Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance: Ordering Open Enrollment Material

GENERAL INFORMATION

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Background	Pub. L. 105-311, Federal Employees Life Insurance Improvement Act, enacted October 30, 1998, requires the Office of Personnel Management to conduct an open season for life insurance. The open enrollment period has been scheduled for April 24, 1999, through June 30, 1999.

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Purpose	The purpose of this Benefits Administration Letter (BAL) is to provide information for ordering open enrollment materials. Details regarding the conduct of the open enrollment period will be sent in a later BAL.

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OPEN ENROLLMENT MATERIAL

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What Material Will Be	The following material will be available for the upcoming

Available for the Open	open enrollment period:

Enrollment Period?

A special FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period Election Form (RI 76-27)

The revised - April 1999 version - of the FEGLI Booklet (RI 76-21 [RI 76-20 for the Postal Service])

A FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period Pamphlet (FE 74 A [FE 74 B for Postal Service])

Posters announcing the FEGLI 99 open enrollment period in three sizes (28" x 43", 11" x 17", and

8 ½" x 11")

Tent cards announcing the FEGLI 99 open enrollment period

A 60-minute video explaining the entire FEGLI Program

A 10-minute video explaining the FEGLI 99 open enrollment period

A CD-ROM, which includes the special election form, the FEGLI Booklet, the FEGLI 99 Pamphlet, the poster, the tent card, and the 10-minute video

The following material will be available for the visually impaired:

The April 1999 version of the FEGLI Booklet in large print (RI 76-24 [RI 76-23 for Postal Service])

A large print version of the FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period Pamphlet (FE 74 C [FE 74 D for Postal Service])

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What Is the Special	The special FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period Election

Election Form?	Form is the ONLY form that can be used to make elections during the open enrollment period. SF 2817 cannot be used for open enrollment elections.

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How Do We Get the Open	Open enrollment material must be ordered. NOTHING

Enrollment Material?	WILL BE SENT AUTOMATICALLY. All orders must come from the agency headquarters Insurance Officer. Orders from other sources will not be accepted.

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How Do We Place	The form for ordering open enrollment material is

the Orders?	attached. (There is a different form for the Postal Service. It will be sent separately.)

Agency headquarters Insurance Officers must order the material directly from the Office of Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance (OFEGLI), not from OPM. Orders can be placed by email or fax (the address and phone number are on the order form). Phone orders will NOT be accepted.

When you place your orders, you must include a shipping address. Attach a separate sheet if there is more than one address, and specify the quantity to be shipped to each address.

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How Much Material	You must give a copy of the revised FEGLI Booklet and

Should We Order?	the FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period Pamphlet to all eligible employees, so you will need to order a quantity large enough for that purpose.

For all other material, you may order as much or as little as you think you will need. Keep in mind, however, that the special election form (RI 76-27) is the only form that can be used to make open enrollment elections. So be sure to order a large enough quantity to meet your open enrollment needs.

All material must be ordered in quantities of 25.

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What Is the Cost of the	There is no cost to agencies for any of the open

Open Enrollment Material?	enrollment material.

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When Should We Place	Headquarters Insurance Officers should place their orders

Our Orders?	as soon as possible. This will help OFEGLI in determining how many of each item to produce.

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When Will the Open	We don't have an exact shipping date; however, the

Enrollment Material	material will be shipped as soon as it is ready. Agencies

Be Shipped?	will have the material before the start of the open enrollment period.

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Reminder	Please remember that no material will be sent automatically to agencies. Agencies will receive only what their headquarters Insurance Officer orders.

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Abby L. Block, Chief

Insurance Policy

and Information Division

Attachment

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' GROUP LIFE INSURANCE PROGRAM

FEGLI 99 OPEN ENROLLMENT PERIOD MATERIALS

NON-POSTAL ORDER FORM

Ship To Information:

Name:

Agency:

Address:

City/State/Zi p:

Contact Person:

Telephone (daytime): Fax:

UPS will not deliver to P.O. Boxes

Fax Orders To:

Office of Federal Employees'

Group Life Insurance

200 Park Avenue

New York NY 10166-0188

Fax: 212-578-4491

E-Mail Orders to:

Fegorder@metlife.com Item #

Description

Specify Quantity

RI 76-27 FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period Election Form RI 76-21 FEGLI Booklet – April 1999 version FE 74 A FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period Pamphlet - Posters Announcing FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period

Large Size Poster (28" x 43") - Posters Announcing FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period

Regular Size Poster (11" x 17") - Posters Announcing FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period

Small Size Poster (8½" x 11") - Tent Cards Announcing FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period MULTI-MEDIA MATERIALS - Video Explaining the Entire FEGLI Program (60 Minutes) - Video Explaining the FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period

(10 Minutes) - CD-ROM including all FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period materials – Election Form, Booklet, Pamphlet, Poster,

Tent Card, Video MATERIALS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED RI 76-24 FEGLI Booklet - April 1999 version

Large Print Visually Impaired Version FE 74 C FEGLI 99 Open Enrollment Period Pamphlet

Large Print Visually Impaired Version

If you have additional Shipping Locations, please attach additional sheets and clearly specify how many of each item we should send to each separate shipping location.