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The Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act (FEGLIA) is a United States federal statute passed by the 83rd U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 17, 1954. [2] The act provided for a group life insurance policy for most federal employees, similar to those provided for employees of most large industries.
A special enrollment period typically gives you 60 days to adjust your coverage following events like losing other health coverage and moving to a new area with different plan options.
WAEPA offers up to $1.5M in coverage, [12] as well as a Chronic Illness Rider, [13] Guaranteed Issue Group Term Life Insurance, [14] and Group Short-Term Disability Insurance [15] for new federal employees. Since 1996, WAEPA has refunded over $101 Million dollars in premiums to its members.
An employee must include in gross income for Federal income tax purposes an amount equal to the cost of group-term life insurance coverage on the employee's life to the extent that the cost of the coverage exceeds the sum of $50,000 plus the amount (if any) paid by the employee to purchase the coverage. [2]
Unless someone experiences a "qualifying event" (a change in personal circumstances such as getting married or having a baby [7]) outside of the annual enrollment period, annual enrollment is the only time to sign up for individual health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Annual enrollment used to last for three months; the 2016 cycle ...
The WEP, enacted in 1983, reduced previously earned benefits for retired workers who received pensions from employers that didn't withhold Social Security taxes, including public service workers.
In the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, plans open to all federal employees and annuitants include 10 fee-for-service and PPO plans, seven HMOs, and eight high-deductible and consumer-driven plans. [4] In the FEHB program the federal government sets minimal standards that, if met by an insurance company, allows it to participate in the program.
Some fringe benefits (for example, accident and health plans, and group-term life insurance coverage (up to US$50,000) (and employer-provided meals and lodging in-kind, [22]) may be excluded from the employee's gross income and, therefore, are not subject to federal income tax in the United States. Some function as tax shelters (for example ...