{"id":12534,"date":"2015-09-30T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T19:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=12534"},"modified":"2015-11-02T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T20:45:27","slug":"opm-announces-2016-fehb-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/09\/30\/opm-announces-2016-fehb-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"OPM Announces 2016 FEHB Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>2016 Premiums<\/h1>\n<div class=\"ContentBody\">\n<h2>Full Sets of Rate Charts<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to the biweekly and monthly premiums, you can also find the total premiums, the amount the <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OPM-Logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11765\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OPM-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"OPM Logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OPM-Logo.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OPM-Logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OPM-Logo-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/OPM-Logo-266x266.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>government pays, and the change in your portion of the premium compared to last year. A new Self Plus One enrollment type has been added in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program that will provide coverage for an enrollee and one designated eligible family member. All FEHB plans will offer a Self Only, Self Plus One, and Self and Family enrollment type beginning in 2016.\u00a0Note: Non-Postal Rates apply to enrollees who are not employed by the U.S. Postal Service. U.S. Postal Rates apply to enrollees who are employed by the U.S. Postal Service.<\/p>\n<h2>HMO (Regional Plans with Specific Service Areas)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"PDF\" title=\"nonpostal-hmo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/healthcare-insurance\/healthcare\/plan-information\/premiums\/2016\/nonpostal-hmo.pdf\" data-filesize=\"1.5 MB\" data-iconappended=\"1\">Non-Postal Rates<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"PDF\">(PDF file)<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"FileSize\">[1.5 MB]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"PDF\" title=\"postal-hmo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/healthcare-insurance\/healthcare\/plan-information\/premiums\/2016\/postal-hmo.pdf\" data-filesize=\"1.48 MB\" data-iconappended=\"1\">U.S. Postal Rates<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"PDF\">(PDF file)<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"FileSize\">[1.48 MB]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>FFS (Fee-for-Service\/Nationwide Plans)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"PDF\" title=\"nonpostal-ffs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/healthcare-insurance\/healthcare\/plan-information\/premiums\/2016\/nonpostal-ffs.pdf\" data-filesize=\"239.84 KB\" data-iconappended=\"1\">Non-Postal Rates<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"PDF\">(PDF file)<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"FileSize\">[239.84 KB]<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"PDF\" title=\"postal-ffs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/healthcare-insurance\/healthcare\/plan-information\/premiums\/2016\/postal-ffs.pdf\" data-filesize=\"239.53 KB\" data-iconappended=\"1\">U.S. Postal Rates<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"PDF\">(PDF file)<\/span><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"FileSize\">[239.53 KB]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The overall average Postal rate increases shown are based on the Postal contribution for Category 1. The Postal employee groups in Category 1 can change from year to year. Postal employees are encouraged to review their Plan brochures for information about how their plan changes for 2016 as soon as the brochures are posted to OPM\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From PEN: Please note &#8211; we cannot answer questions regarding insurance or any other USPS benefit.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2016 Premiums Full Sets of Rate Charts In addition to the biweekly and monthly premiums, you can also find the total premiums, the amount the government pays, and the change in your portion of the premium compared to last year. A new Self Plus One enrollment type has been added in the Federal Employees Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12534"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12873,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12534\/revisions\/12873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}