{"id":33655,"date":"2023-05-01T08:48:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=33655"},"modified":"2023-05-01T08:55:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:55:19","slug":"postal-service-health-benefits-pshb-program-will-begin-jan-1-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2023\/05\/01\/postal-service-health-benefits-pshb-program-will-begin-jan-1-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program will begin Jan. 1. 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The article below comes to us from <a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/2023\/05\/01\/on-the-way-6\/\">USPS News Link<\/a>. Please direct any questions or concerns to USPS. You may post your thoughts in the comment section below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>5\/1\/23 &#8211; The new Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program will begin Jan. 1. 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The PSHB will be a separate program within the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program and will be administered by the Office of Personnel Management.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.usps.com\/2022\/04\/12\/health-benefits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>PSHB Program<\/em><\/a>\u00a0will provide coverage for Postal Service employees, annuitants and their eligible family members.<\/p>\n<p>More information, including a FAQ and fact sheet, is available on the PSHB page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/humanresources\/benefits\/insurance\/pshb.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>on LiteBlue<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Employees and retirees can also receive more information and updates by texting \u201cPSHBP\u201d to 39369.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PEN Comments: <\/strong>It is our OPINION that this new health care option will, in the long term, cost postal employees and retirees &#8211; if not in actual cost, then in reduced benefits&#8230;or both. We do NOT agree with the removal of postal employees and retirees from the FEHB program that they were promised, and were subscribers of, for years. It is almost like our government removing your right to have a union. However, all postal unions lobbied to pass the Postal Reform Act that brought us the PSHB plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PSHB-USPS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33656\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PSHB-USPS-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PSHB-USPS-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PSHB-USPS-123x70.jpg 123w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PSHB-USPS.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article below comes to us from USPS News Link. Please direct any questions or concerns to USPS. You may post your thoughts in the comment section below. 5\/1\/23 &#8211; The new Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program will begin Jan. 1. 2025. The PSHB will be a separate program within the Federal Employees Health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33655","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=33655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33659,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33655\/revisions\/33659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}