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Article Title: OPM Releases List of Conditionally Approved Carrier Applicants for Postal Service Health Benefits Program
Snippet of Article: "The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has released a list of approved carrier applicants to participate in the Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program. The program was established for U.S. postal employees and their families to begin January 1, 2025. ..."
Article Title: AARP | Do retired federal employees have to enroll in Medicare?
Snippet of Article: "I have federal retiree health insurance. Do I have to sign up for Medicare? ...retired federal employees covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program aren’t required to enroll in Medicare. Your federal retiree coverage can continue as your primary coverage if you’ve been continuously insured for five years immediately before departing.
This isn’t the case for other types of retiree health insurance. Typically, health insurance coverage from a former employer, rather than a current employer, becomes secondary to Medicare when you turn 65...."
Article Title: Will You Be Forced To Pay Into Medicare?
Snippet of Article: "...Congress is considering a bill that would require postal retirees to enroll in Medicare Parts B and D or lose their Federal health insurance. Is this the future for all Federal retirees?..."
Article Title: USPS Plan to Pull Out of Fed Health Benefits Could Cost Postal Workers
Snippet of Article: "...While most non-postal FEHB enrollees would likely not be affected by USPS’ withdrawal from the program, about 29,000 federal employees would have to select a new health plan, according to GAO, as some plans that primarily offer services to USPS workers would drop out of FEHB. ..."
Article Title: House passes sweeping GOP budget cuts, reforms
Snippet of Article: "...keep their hands off of Medicare and the sacred contract that we have with the people we are sworn to serve."
Several spectators were forcibly removed from the House gallery shortly before the vote for yelling and generally disrupting the chamber's proceedings...."
