Postal Service Health Benefits Program (PSHB) will replace FEHB coverage for postal employees, annuitants and eligible family members

  Postal Service Health Benefits Program (PSHB) will replace FEHB coverage for postal employees, annuitants and eligible family members

"...PSHB would make the same plans available and on the same coverage terms as in the FEHB but with their premiums determined separately. ..."

Reference: www.fedweek.com
 

Postal Service is considering cutting as many as 120,000 jobs

 Cash-strapped USPS may cut 120,000 jobs

"...the agency also wants to pull its workers out of the retirement and health benefits plans covering federal workers and set up its own benefit systems...."

Reference: www.cbsnews.com 

FEHB Program Expected to Cover Dependents Until Age 26

 
FEHB Program Expected to Cover Dependents Until Age 26
"...The effective date of this provision is the first day of the plan year that is six months following enactment of the law. For the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, that means January 1, 2011. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is expected to take the necessary actions to comply with the new law by this effective date. OPM will be providing additional information on its website in the near future about this and other changes to FEHBP plans for the 2011 plan year that will occur based on passage of the PPACA, so that mail handlers and other postal and federal employees and retirees will have the necessary information in time for the Open Season, which begins in November 2010...."
Reference: www.npmhu.org

 

FEHB and the Unfair Tax

 
POSTAL AND FEDERAL UNIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS FIGHT TO PROTECT FEHB AND TO STOP THE UNFAIR TAX!
"...the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and other postal/federal organizations sent a letter to Senate and House Democratic leaders, committee chairmen involved in health care, and members of the National Capital Area delegation.
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Reference: www.npmhu.org