{"id":27543,"date":"2019-11-03T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T16:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=27543"},"modified":"2019-11-03T11:17:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T16:17:34","slug":"open-season-for-postal-employees-begins-monday-nov-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/11\/03\/open-season-for-postal-employees-begins-monday-nov-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Open season for postal employees begins Monday, Nov. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/os1preview_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/os1preview_large-story.jpg 900w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/os1preview_large-story-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/os1preview_large-story-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/os1preview_large-story-102x85.jpg 102w\" alt=\"Woman receives eye exam from smiling technician\" width=\"523\" height=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>A variety of health, vision and dental coverage is available to USPS employees during the Nov. 11-Dec. 9 open season period.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/2019\/11\/01\/opening-soon-5\/\">USPS News Link<\/a> &#8211; 11\/01\/19 &#8211; Open season, the annual period when Postal Service employees can change their health benefits or enroll in a new plan, begins Monday, Nov. 11.<\/p>\n<p>A variety of health, vision and dental coverage is available through the following plans and programs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHB)<\/li>\n<li>USPS Health Benefits Plan (USPSHBP) for non-career employees only<\/li>\n<li>Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP)<\/li>\n<li>Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liteblue.usps.gov\/openseason\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Season LiteBlue page\u00a0<\/a><\/em>has information and resources to help you prepare, including FAQs, informational videos and a link to a health plan comparison tool from Checkbook\u2019s Guide to Health Plans.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information will be provided throughout open season, which concludes Monday, Dec. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A variety of health, vision and dental coverage is available to USPS employees during the Nov. 11-Dec. 9 open season period. USPS News Link &#8211; 11\/01\/19 &#8211; Open season, the annual period when Postal Service employees can change their health benefits or enroll in a new plan, begins Monday, Nov. 11. A variety of health, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27543","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\/27543","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=27543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27544,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27543\/revisions\/27544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}