U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce

The Office of Personnel Management is responsible for administration and oversight of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. These pages link to indexes of the Benefits Administration Letters (BALs) that provide guidance to agencies on the FEHB Program. Select this link for a complete list of BALs relating to all benefits programs that OPM administers. You can also now receive all newly issued BALs by email.

Look at the letters:

Financial Management and Payroll Office Letters

The last Financial Management and Payroll Office letters were published in 2000. Effective January 1, 2001, the information formerly issued in these letters is now issued in 300 series Benefits Administration Letters.

Archived copies of these letters are available on this website:

• Financial Management Letters
• Payroll Office Letters

How to subscribe to the Benefits Administration Information List

You can subscribe to this list to receive Adobe Acrobat PDF copies of BALs when they are issued in either of two ways:

1. Send an email message requesting a subscription to the list. Address your email to listserv@listserv.opm.gov.

   In the BODY of the message type:
   SUBSCRIBE BENEFITSINFO firstname lastname., substituting your own first and last names.

2. From the web, you can join or leave the list (or change settings).

That's all it takes. You'll automatically be added to the list and begin receiving BALs.