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Retirement Services Hot Topics

What is hot and new in retirement programs is highlighted here. Select the headline to read more.

What's New:
  • Use Open Season Online to change your Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program enrollment, request health plan brochures, and other information during the annual FEHB Open Season. The open season begins November 8, 2004 and ends December 13, 2004.
  • We have updated our Library to include new web versions of several publications.
What's Hot:
  • Calculators:
    • Compute the tax-free portion of your annuity payments.
    • Figure your monthly Federal income tax withholding.
    • The FEGLI Calculator is an online, interactive calculator that allows you to determine the face value of your FEGLI insurance; calculate how much you are paying for this coverage; see how choosing different options can change the amount of your life insurance and your premium withholdings; and see how the life insurance carried into retirement will change over time.
  • Electronic Forms: Find Standard Forms (SF), Optional Forms (OF), OPM Forms, life insurance forms, and forms help.
  • Services Online: Use this web site to start, change, or stop your Federal and State income tax withholdings, purchase savings bonds, and obtain duplicate tax statements (1099R's), change your mailing address, sign up for or change your account or financial institution for direct deposit of your annuity payment, and make allotments to organizations, create checking or savings allotments, and view a monthly statement of your annuity.
  • Find the last day to make changes to your next payment in the Payment Schedule.
  • FAQ Map: Check the index of answers to the most frequently asked questions.