Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a new information collection request (ICR): FEHB Protection Act Portal (FPA Portal).
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Retirement Services offers the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a new information collection request (ICR), Annuitant Verification Form, RI 20-129.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers the general public the opportunity to comment on an information collection request (ICR): Tribal Federal Employee Health Benefits (FEHB) Program Tribal Employer Application, OMB Control Number (3206-NEW). As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act, OPM is soliciting comments for this collection.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Retirement Services offers the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the reinstatement of an expired information collection request (ICR), Death Benefit Payment Rollover, RI 94-7.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to amend its regulations governing administrative leave for workforce realignment and other purposes. This final rule more fully addresses the appropriate uses of administrative leave, including use in connection with deferred resignation programs and other workforce realignment initiatives, and for other purposes. The final rule also clarifies when an agency may provide administrative leave during a reduction-in-force notice period and accept or deny an employee's request to withdraw a resignation in the context of a deferred resignation program.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is adopting, substantially as proposed, its proposed rule eliminating the Time-in- Grade (TIG) restriction on advancement to competitive service positions in the General Schedule (GS). Under the prior regulations, a candidate generally could not be advanced to a covered position at GS-6 or above without completing 52 weeks in a position no more than one grade lower--or two grades lower for certain positions in two-grade-interval lines of work. This final rule removes that requirement. Employees remain subject to all applicable occupational qualification standards and any additional job-related qualification requirements established by their employing agency.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are issuing a final rule to strengthen the performance appraisal of senior-level (SL) and scientific or professional (ST) employees, collectively referred to as "senior professionals." This final rule establishes a new subpart dedicated exclusively to senior professional performance appraisal that aligns more closely with Senior Executive Service (SES) performance appraisal regulations. The rule also eliminates senior professional appraisal programs, removes the prohibition of a standardized distribution of performance rating levels, and enhances oversight of the appraisal process.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a direct final rule making technical revisions to OPM's Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) regulations to incorporate various statutory amendments. The rule reflects statutory changes making virtually all Federal civilian service and certain honorable active military service qualify for determining FMLA eligibility, making clear that annual and sick leave provided under an authority outside of title 5, United States Code, may be substituted for unpaid FMLA leave, and excluding certain Veterans Health Administration (VHA) employees from title 5 FMLA coverage.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Notice is hereby given of the appointment of members of the OPM Performance Review Board.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposes to amend its regulations governing the excepted service, Pathways Programs, and administrative law judge (ALJ) appointments. The proposed rule would conform OPM regulations to current excepted-service schedules, including Schedules E, Policy/Career, and G; modernize part 302 procedures while preserving veterans' preference, compensable-injury restoration rights, and other priority placement rights; authorize and clarify Pathways conversions to Schedule Policy/Career; and make related conforming amendments.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) invites the public and Federal agencies to comment on its new Annual Employee Survey (AES) information collection request (ICR). The AES includes survey items previously administered through the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) and fulfills statutory and regulatory employee-survey requirements.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: This request for information (RFI) seeks public input on how to optimize health benefits plan options offered in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program, which includes the Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program, to give enrollees high value choices at competitive costs while ensuring the appropriate number and distribution of options are available to enrollees. Currently, health benefits plans in the FEHB Program are limited to offering three options or two options and a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) pursuant to 5 CFR 890.201(b)(3)(i). The information gathered through this RFI will inform the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) as to whether modifications to the current FEHB regulations are needed through future notice and comment rulemaking as OPM explores ways to optimize the FEHB and PSHB portfolio and provide enrollees with high value choices at competitive costs.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: OPM is reopening the public comment period for additional comments on OPM data and a new report published by a nongovernmental organization. OPM is releasing current data that is relevant to the proposed rule published on July 2, 2026, entitled "Promoting Employee Accountability." OPM is also interested in receiving public comment on a report published by We the Doers published on August 27, 2026. Accordingly, OPM is reopening the rulemaking for public comment specifically with respect to the proposed rule as informed by the newly released data and the report. The comment period for the proposed rule closed August 3, 2026; it is now reopened for two weeks.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing an interim rule to improve hiring efficiency across federal agencies, modify provisions pertaining to how an appointing authority (i.e., the head of a Federal agency or department) may share a competitive certificate with one or more appointing authorities, implement provisions to allow an appointing authority to share an excepted service certificate with one or more appointing authorities, and implement provisions regarding OPM-led hiring actions which allow federal agencies to utilize competitive and excepted service certificates for occupations common to many agencies.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register on August 3, 2026, and became effective on September 2, 2026. That rule revised OPM's reduction in force regulations and made related revisions to the Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP) regulations. An amendatory instruction in the rule inadvertently resulted in the removal of two paragraphs from the definition of "displaced". This document restores those paragraphs.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is amending its regulations governing the critical position pay (CPP) authority to establish level I of the Executive Schedule as the default maximum critical pay rate, with higher rates subject to written approval by the Director of OPM. The final rule eliminates non-statutory caps and approval criteria; addresses the use of service agreements; clarifies that reductions or terminations of CPP are not adverse actions or subject to grievance or appeal rights; and clarifies the treatment of critical pay rates as basic pay. This final rule simplifies and better aligns OPM's regulations with governing law and delegated authority.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance on computer matching, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice of the establishment of a new matching program. Pursuant to the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA), OPM is establishing a matching program with the Department of the Treasury's Do Not Pay (DNP) Working System, which is administered by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service. The matching program will enable OPM Retirement Services to compare records maintained in OPM systems of records with records maintained in the DNP Working System for the purposes of identifying and preventing improper payments and conducting related recovery activities by verifying pre-payment eligibility through Do Not Pay. OPM has determined that this matching program satisfies the eligibility requirements for the waiver of the computer matching agreement requirement under OMB Memorandum M-25-32.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a final rule in the Federal Register on August 3, 2026, concerning reduction in force appeals. That document contained typographical and citation errors in the regulatory text. This document corrects the final rule.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a final rule in the Federal Register on August 3, 2026, concerning suitability action appeals. That document contained typographical and structural errors in the regulatory text. This document corrects the final rule.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a final rule in the Federal Register on August 3, 2026, streamlining probationary and trial period appeals. That document contained typographical and clerical errors in the regulatory text. This document corrects the final rule. This document also makes a technical amendment to OPM regulations to conform its appeal-rights reference to the final rule.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published a final rule in the Federal Register on August 3, 2026, concerning reduction in force. That document contained typographical and clerical errors in amendatory instructions and in the regulatory text. This document corrects the final rule.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is correcting technical and conforming errors arising from two recent final rules: "Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service," published February 6, 2026 and effective March 9, 2026, and "Recruitment and Relocation Incentive Waivers," published December 15, 2025 and effective February 13, 2026. The corrections make no substantive change to the regulations.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the reinstatement of an expired information collection request (ICR), Application for Death Benefits/Documentation and Elections in Support of Application for Death Benefits When Deceased Was an Employee at the Time of Death (CSRS).
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the reinstatement of an expired information collection request (ICR), Application for Court- Ordered Benefits for Former Spouses, Standard Form 3119.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-108, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice of the re- establishment of a matching program between OPM and the Social Security Administration (SSA) under Computer Matching Agreement (CMA) No. 1045. The purpose of the matching program is to enable SSA to disclose wage and self-employment income information to OPM for use in determining continued eligibility for certain retirement and survivor benefits subject to statutory earnings limitations.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule to add prescribed (planned) wildland fire duties as covered activities triggering payment of Hazardous Duty Pay (HDP) for General Schedule (GS) employees and Environmental Differential Pay (EDP) for Federal Wage System (FWS) employees. The final rule authorizes a 25 percent differential for GS and FWS employees participating as a member of a firefighting crew engaged in activities on the fireline directly involving the implementation and control of prescribed wildland fires.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Pursuant to the President's direction in Executive Order 14410, Implementing Schedule Policy/Career in the Excepted Service, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a direct final rule to update and amend obsolete and outdated provisions of the Civil Service Rules that do not substantively affect agency operations.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-108, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice of the re- establishment of a matching program between OPM and the Social Security Administration (SSA) under Computer Matching Agreement (CMA) No. 1071. The purpose of this matching program is to enable SSA to disclose Title II Social Security benefit information to OPM for use in determining eligibility for, and computing, Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) benefits payable to disability annuitants and survivor annuitants as required by law.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Suitability Executive Agent Programs, is notifying the general public and Federal agencies that OPM proposes to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) renew a previously approved information collection, Optional Form 306 (OF 306), Declaration for Federal Employment, without change.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations to revise how an employee may appeal a furlough of more than 30 days, separation, or demotion by a reduction-in-force (RIF) action. OPM will replace the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) as the adjudicative agency for such appeals. The rule establishes a uniform, record-based OPM appeal process; clarifies the appellant's burden; requires production of the complete agency record; preserves collateral statutory remedies; and applies prospectively to improve timeliness, consistency, and cost-effectiveness while maintaining administrative review.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is revising its reduction in force (RIF) regulations to make the RIF regulations more streamlined, efficient, and merit-based by prioritizing performance over tenure and length of service when determining which employees will be retained in a RIF and by modifying the types of employees who are excluded from RIF competition. OPM is also revising its regulations regarding the reemployment priority list (RPL), career transition assistance program (CTAP), the interagency career transition assistance program (ICTAP), and transfers of function.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to change the circumstances and procedures for adjudicating appeals from employees terminated during their probationary and trial periods and supervisors and managers who fail to complete their probationary periods. Executive order, "Strengthening Probationary Periods in the Federal Service," rendered the prior procedures for appealing such actions to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) inoperative. This final rule establishes a new, limited appeals process adjudicated by OPM. The final rule also makes conforming amendments.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations to revise how an applicant, appointee, or employee may appeal a suitability action taken under 5 CFR part 731. OPM will replace the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) as the adjudicative agency for such appeals. The change will streamline suitability action appeals procedures, thereby improving the efficiency, rigor, and timeliness by which OPM and agencies resolve challenges to suitability actions and ensure the integrity and efficiency of the service.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing this direct final rule to update the provisions concerning Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) claims submissions to OPM.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing this direct final rule to update the provisions concerning administrative claims submissions to OPM.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing an interim final rule with request for comments to remove references to the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (UGESP) from Federal civil service regulations. These amendments conform OPM's regulations to the Department of Justice, Office of Legal Counsel's June 9, 2026, opinion finding the UGESP unlawful.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers the general public the opportunity to comment on a new information collection request (ICR): OPM E-File System, OMB-Control Number (3206-NEW). As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, amended by the Clinger-Cohen Act, OPM is soliciting comments for this collection.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the reinstatement of an expired information collection request (ICR), We Need Information About Your Missing Payment, RI 38-31.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is responsible for the rules for processing garnishment orders for child support and/or alimony and the rules for processing commercial garnishment orders. This rule updates the address for the Interior Business Center, which serves as the agent for service of process for many agencies. The rule also adds an agent for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to the list of agents designated to accept legal process.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management proposes regulations to carry out provisions of the First Responder Fair Return for Employees on Their Initial Retirement Earned Act. The Act allows covered Federal first responders who experience a qualifying duty-related illness or injury to continue receiving Federal retirement benefits in the same manner as though they had not experienced the disability. The proposed regulations would carry out the amendments the Act made to statutory provisions relating to the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees' Retirement System.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Suitability Executive Agent Programs, is notifying the general public and other federal agencies that OPM proposes to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) renew Standard Form 86 (SF 86), Questionnaire for National Security Positions, without change.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on OPM's submission to OMB for approval of a new information collection, Request for Reduction or Cancellation of Federal Employees Group Life Insurance (FEGLI), RI 76-30.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of performance management for non-Senior Executive Service (SES) employees, including General Schedule (GS) and prevailing rate employees. This final rule eliminates unnecessary summary level patterns; removes the prohibition of a forced, or standardized, distribution of performance rating levels; eliminates mandatory review of Level 1 ratings; removes the option to grieve a rating of record; requires a supervisory critical element for all supervisors covered under this subpart; and requires OPM to conduct biennial certifications of agency appraisal systems.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB or Board) are issuing proposed regulations governing performance-based reduction in grade and removal actions, non-disciplinary separations, and adverse actions, along with the MSPB's review of those actions, and proposing improved and additional training to supervisors. With this rule, OPM seeks to improve the accountability of employees for poor performance and misconduct by streamlining the administrative procedures used by agencies to take performance-based and adverse actions; and MSPB seeks to refocus its penalty review on a totality of the circumstances test rather than a rigid application of prescribed factors. The proposed rule also promotes transparency regarding employee poor performance and misconduct by restricting agencies' ability to engage in settlement agreements that remove official documentation of performance or conduct detrimental to the efficiency of the service.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a new Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) information collection request (ICR). OPM conducts this collection to satisfy statutorily required employee survey requirements.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposes amending 5 CFR part 250 by replacing Human Capital Operating Plans (HCOPs) with Annual Staffing Plans (ASPs), Human Capital Reviews (HCRs) with Annual Staffing Reviews (ASRs), and the HRStat quarterly review process with Quarterly Staffing Plan Performance Reviews. The proposed changes also strengthen the role of the agency Chief Human Capital Officer (CHCO) by requiring the CHCO to have appropriate visibility, control and oversight of human capital functions within the agency. The proposed rule would modify, and reduce in number, the required survey questions for annual employee surveys.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on an expiring information collection request (ICR), SF 2802 Application for Refund of Retirement Deductions: CSRS and SF 2802A Notification of Application for Refund of Retirement Deductions Under CSRS.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on an expiring information collection request (ICR), Initial Certification of Full-Time School Attendance, RI 25-41.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on an expiring information collection request (ICR), Report of Medical Examination of Person Electing Survivor Benefits, OPM 1530.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the review of an expiring information collection request (ICR), Application to Make Deposit or Redeposit (CSRS)--SF 2803 and Application to Make Service Credit Payment for Civilian Service (FERS)--SF 3108.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the review of an expiring information collection request (ICR), Information and Instructions on Your Reconsideration Rights, RI 38-47.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the review of an expiring information collection request (ICR), Request to Disability Annuitant for Information on Physical Condition and Employment, RI 30- 1.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the review of an expiring information collection request (ICR), Annuity Supplement Earnings Report, RI 92-22.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Retirement Services offers the general public and other federal agencies the opportunity to comment on an expiring information collection request (ICR), RI 30-9--Reinstatement of Disability Annuity Previously Terminated Because of Restoration to Earning Capacity.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is amending the Federal Government personnel vetting adjudicative processes for determining suitability and taking suitability actions. The final rule will improve the efficiency, rigor, and timeliness by which OPM and agencies vet individuals for risk to the integrity and efficiency of the service and make clear that individuals who engage in serious misconduct while employed in Federal service are subject to the same suitability procedures and actions as applicants for employment. It also ensures that suitability determinations and actions are applied consistently with Merit System Principles.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposes to amend its regulations to more fully address the appropriate uses of administrative leave, including use in connection with deferred resignation programs and other workforce realignment initiatives, and for other purposes. OPM is also proposing to amend its regulation on resignations to clarify when an agency may accept or deny an employee's request to withdraw a resignation in the context of a deferred resignation program.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is confirming the effective date of its direct final rule amending 5 CFR part 591, subpart A, to increase the governmentwide maximum annual uniform allowance rate to $1,500 and make related technical and clarifying changes. OPM received no significant adverse comments during the comment period and therefore confirms the rule will become effective as scheduled.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposes to modify and republish a new system of records previously titled "OPM/Central-9, Personnel Investigations Records" which will be renamed to "OPM/Central-9, OPM Suitability Adjudications Files." The modification is necessary since the current system of records previously covered both background investigation records and suitability adjudication records. OPM has transferred the background investigation mission and associated records to the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) at the U.S. Department of Defense. DCSA published a new system of records notice for the personnel investigations records titled "Personnel Vetting Records System, DUSDI 02-DoD" (83 FR 52420 and 83 FR 52317). As a result, the personnel investigations records are no longer maintained in OPM/Central-9. Accordingly, OPM has modified the system to maintain only suitability adjudication, action, and appeals records. The system contains records used by OPM to make, document, and review suitability determinations and related actions for individuals seeking or holding covered Federal positions. These records support OPM's statutory and regulatory responsibilities to determine whether an individual is suitable for Federal employment and to adjudicate and process related appeals.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to amend its Senior Executive Service (SES) Candidate Development Program (SESCDP) regulations to implement certain SES training and development requirements. The SES represents the Federal Government's leadership, composed of executive positions above the GS-15 level. SESCDPs serve as a crucial succession management tool for Federal agencies, designed to identify and prepare high-potential employees for future roles within the SES. These programs aim to cultivate leaders equipped with a governmentwide perspective and the competencies necessary to tackle complex challenges.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposes to modify and republish in full a system of records previously titled "OPM/Central-15, Health Claims Data Warehouse Records" which will be renamed "OPM/Central-15, Health Benefits Claims and Cost Records." The modification is necessary to include Postal Service Health Benefits Program records in the system, to provide notice of additional data fields collected to support the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program, as well as to provide notice of additional routine uses to the system. The system of records contains health benefits service use and cost data about enrollees and their family members, who are or have been covered under the FEHB Program. As in previous notices for this system of records, the term "service use and cost data" includes, but is not limited to, medical claims data, pharmacy claims data, encounter data, and provider data. The system of records also includes Medicare service use and cost data about FEHB- covered individuals who are enrolled in Medicare. This notice clarifies that references in the system of records to the "FEHB Program" or "FEHB" include the Postal Service Health Benefits Program ("PSHB Program" or "PSHB") within the FEHB Program.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice of adjusted present value factors applicable to certain retirees under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS): Retirees who elect to provide survivor annuity benefits to a spouse based on a post- retirement marriage; retiring employees who elect the alternative form of annuity, owe certain redeposits based on refunds of contributions for service ending before March 1, 1991, or elect to credit certain service with nonappropriated fund instrumentalities; or for retirees with certain types of retirement coverage errors who can elect to receive credit for service by taking an actuarial reduction under the provisions of the Federal Erroneous Retirement Coverage Correction Act. This notice is necessary to conform the present value factors to changes in the economic and demographic assumptions adopted by the Board of Actuaries of the Civil Service Retirement System.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice of revised normal cost percentages for employees covered by the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) Act of 1986.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice of adjusted present value factors applicable to certain retirees under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS): Retirees who elect to provide survivor annuity benefits to a spouse based on post-retirement marriage; retiring employees who elect the alternative form of annuity; or retirees who elect to credit certain service with nonappropriated fund instrumentalities. This notice is necessary to conform the present value factors to changes in the economic and demographic assumptions adopted by the Board of Actuaries of the Civil Service Retirement System.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is revising the table of reduction factors for early commencing dates of survivor annuities for spouses of separated employees who die before the date on which they would be eligible for unreduced deferred annuities. The annuity factor for spouses of deceased employees who die in service when those spouses elect to receive the basic employee death benefit in 36 installments under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) Act of 1986 remains unchanged.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The President's Commission on White House Fellowships (PCWHF) was established by an executive order in 1964. The PCWHF is an advisory committee composed of Special Government Employees appointed by the President. The Advisory Committee meets in June to interview potential candidates for recommendation to become a White House Fellow. The meeting is closed to the public.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 8347(f) and also in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, the Board of Actuaries of the Civil Service Retirement System plans to meet on Monday, June 29, 2026. The meeting will start at 10:00 a.m. EDT and will be held at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), 1900 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20415. The purpose of the meeting is for the Board to review the actuarial methods and assumptions used in the valuations of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to redefine the Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area coverage of the Raven Rock Mountain Complex (RRMC), which spans small portions of Washington County, Maryland, which is in the Washington-Baltimore- Arlington wage area, and Adams County, Pennsylvania, which is in the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA wage area. OPM will redefine the RRMC portion of Adams County from the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA wage area to the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington wage area so that all of the RRMC is in the same wage area. Portions of Adams County outside of RRMC will continue to be defined to the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA, wage area. This change will align wage area coverage for installations within the Pentagon Reservation and prevent pay disparities among FWS employees working at the RRMC.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: This document sets forth these final rules related to certain provisions of the No Surprises Act regarding the Federal independent dispute resolution (IDR) process, which was established as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA). These rules finalize new requirements relating to the disclosure of information that group health plans and health insurance issuers offering group or individual health insurance coverage must include along with the initial payment or notice of denial of payment for certain items and services subject to the surprise billing protections in the No Surprises Act. These final rules also require plans and issuers to communicate information by using claim adjustment reason codes (CARCs) and remittance advice remark codes (RARCs), as specified in guidance, when providing any paper or electronic remittance advice (ERA) to an entity that does not have a contractual relationship with the plan or issuer. This document also finalizes amendments to certain requirements related to the open negotiation period preceding the Federal IDR process, the initiation of the Federal IDR process, the Federal IDR dispute eligibility review process, and the payment and collection of administrative fees and certified IDR entity fees. This document also finalizes the definition of bundled payment arrangements, amends requirements related to batched items and services and amends the rules for extensions of timeframes due to extenuating circumstances. Additionally, this document finalizes provisions that require plans and issuers to register in the Federal IDR portal. In accordance with Federal law, a summary of these rules may be found at https://www.regulations.gov/.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The FEHB Protection Act of 2025 (FPA) requires OPM to issue regulations and implement a process to verify: The veracity of any qualifying life event (QLE) through which a health benefits plan enrollee seeks to add a member of family to their enrollment and that when an enrollee adds a family member to the health benefits plan, including during any open season, the individual is a qualified member of family. This final rule also clarifies responsibilities for initial family member eligibility determinations for the Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a revised information collection request (ICR) for two forms: SF 2809 Health Benefits Election Form and OPM 2809 Health Benefits Election Form.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposes eliminating the Time-in-Grade (TIG) restriction on advancement to competitive service positions in the General Schedule. Currently, employees in competitive service General Schedule positions in grades 5 and above must serve 52 weeks in grade before becoming eligible for promotion to the next grade level. Abolishing the restriction would eliminate the 52-week service requirement. If the requirement is eliminated, an employee must continue to meet occupational qualification standard requirements, and any additional job-related qualification requirements.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) requests comment on a draft nondisclosure agreement (NDA) for use by Federal agencies for both new and existing employees. The form is intended to document Federal employees' acknowledgment of, and agreement to comply with, current legal obligations to safeguard non-public, confidential, or proprietary information, created or obtained through their official duties, while expressly preserving the right to make disclosures authorized by law. OPM believes that a governmentwide NDA form will promote consistency across Government, better protect confidential information, and better inform Federal employees of their rights and obligations regarding confidential information.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for reinstatement of previously approved collections, Program Services Evaluation Surveys and Leadership Assessment Surveys, as Generic Collections. Approval of the Program Services Evaluation Surveys and the Leadership Assessment Surveys is necessary to collect information on Federal agency and program performance, climate, employee attitudes and leadership effectiveness, and to give OPM the ability to customize each Program Services Evaluation survey based on customer requirements.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Suitability Executive Agent Programs, is notifying the general public and Federal agencies that OPM proposes to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) renew a previously approved information collection, Optional Form 306 (OF 306), Declaration for Federal Employment, without change.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposes to add a routine use to OPM GOVT-1, General Personnel Records, to implement requirements from Executive Order 14249, Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, and OMB Memorandum M-25-32, Preventing Improper Payments and Protecting Privacy Through Do Not Pay.
Read the original on FederalRegister.gov →Official abstract: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) proposes to add a routine use to the systems of records listed in this notice to implement requirements from Executive Order 14249, Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, and OMB Memorandum M-25-32, Preventing Improper Payments and Protecting Privacy Through Do Not Pay.
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