{"id":36897,"date":"2024-12-05T17:37:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=36897"},"modified":"2024-12-05T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T22:38:52","slug":"opm-has-extended-open-season-for-the-postal-service-health-benefits-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/12\/05\/opm-has-extended-open-season-for-the-postal-service-health-benefits-program\/","title":{"rendered":"OPM has extended Open Season for the Postal Service Health Benefits Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>12\/5\/24 &#8211; Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/healthcare-insurance\/pshb\/\">OPM has extended Open Season<\/a> for the Postal Service Health Benefits Program through Friday, December 13th at 11:59 pm EST.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This extension is only for the PSHBP. This does not extend to FEHB or other benefits programs. The deadline for FEHB remains 11:59 pm, in the location of your electronic enrollment system, on Monday, December 9th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your interest in the Postal Service Health Benefits Program!<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you received an auto-enrollment letter and reviewed the PSHB enrollment information, but do not need to make changes, you do not need to take action during Open Season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/health-benefits.opm.gov\/\">Get coverage or change your enrollment information<\/a>. To make changes by phone, call the PSHB Helpline at 844-451-1261.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For questions about Medicare Parts A, B, and D, Medicare Advantage Plans, and general benefits information, please reference these\u00a0<a title=\"Carrier Customer Service Numbers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/healthcare-insurance\/pshb\/tabs\/carrier-customer-service-numbers\/\">Carrier Customer Service Numbers<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a title=\"Brochures\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/healthcare-insurance\/pshb\/brochures\/\">plan brochures<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For current Postal Service employees, you may also call the USPS Human Resources Shared Service Center directly at 877-477-3273.<\/li>\n<li>If you have technical issues with your Login.gov account, Login.gov operates a 24\/7 contact center via phone or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.gov\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website contact form<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OPM-Logo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-18743\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OPM-Logo2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OPM-Logo2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OPM-Logo2-30x30.jpg 30w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/OPM-Logo2-266x266.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\/5\/24 &#8211; Update: OPM has extended Open Season for the Postal Service Health Benefits Program through Friday, December 13th at 11:59 pm EST. This extension is only for the PSHBP. This does not extend to FEHB or other benefits programs. The deadline for FEHB remains 11:59 pm, in the location of your electronic enrollment system, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36897","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\/36897","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=36897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36899,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36897\/revisions\/36899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}