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United States

Office of Personnel Management

Retirement and Insurance Service

Benefits Administration Letter

Number: 98-204 Date: June 4, 1998 

Subject: Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance: Revised FEGLI Booklet

General Information The FEGLI Booklet (RI 76-21) has been revised. The new

version is dated June 1998. The previous version (April

1995) is no longer usable.

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Content The focus of this new version of the FEGLI Booklet is

different from previous editions. The Booklet is now

intended as a general introduction to the FEGLI Program,

geared toward new employees. Much of the detailed

information contained in previous versions of the Booklet

has been removed. The definitive guide to the FEGLI

Program for agencies and all employees is now the FEGLI

Handbook (RI 76-26).

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Availability The FEGLI Booklet will be available for viewing and

downloading on our web site at www.opm.gov/insure/life in

early June.

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Distribution Agencies must provide hard copies of the FEGLI Booklet

to new employees and employees newly eligible for

coverage under the Federal Employees’ Group Life

Insurance Program. (This is a change from past practice; in

1995, we required agencies to provide Booklets to all

employees.)

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Obtaining Copies There are two ways to obtain copies of the FEGLI Booklet:

1) Download the Booklet from the web site and make

sufficient copies for distribution; or
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2) Order Booklets from the Office of Federal

Employees’ Group Life Insurance (OFEGLI) by

following the procedure listed below.

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Ordering from OFEGLI OFEGLI will accept orders only from agency headquarters

Insurance Officers. Orders placed by anyone else will be

returned unprocessed.

Agency headquarters Insurance Officers may order

Booklets from OFEGLI by one of the following methods:

1) email fegorder@metlife.com

2) fax OFEGLI at 212-578-4491, Attention: Forms

Ordering Desk

3) send a letter to OFEGLI, Forms Ordering Desk, 200

Park Avenue, New York, NY 10166-0188.

Telephone orders will not be accepted.

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Information Needed All orders to OFEGLI must contain the following

When Ordering information:

• name and agency of the person requesting the

Booklets (must be the designated headquarters

Insurance Officer)

• complete address(es) where OFEGLI should ship

the Booklets

• phone number and fax number of the headquarters

Insurance Officer

• quantity of Booklets needed at each address (must

be in multiples of 25).

Because of the possibility of legislative changes affecting the

FEGLI Program, we suggest that agencies not stock a large

quantity of the Booklets.

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Additional Information As soon as you receive or download the new Booklets, you

must destroy previous versions.

Headquarters Insurance Officers can submit their order to

OFEGLI as soon as they read this Benefits Administration 

Letter; however, orders will not be filled until mid- to late June, after the hard copies of the

Booklets are available.

The FEGLI Booklet will be available on the web site before
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the hard copies are available for shipment.

Audio tapes and large-print versions of the Booklet will not

be available. The Booklet will be on the Internet in

WordPerfect 5.1, which is accessible for the text readers for

the visually impaired.

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Abby L. Block, Chief

Insurance Policy

 and Information Division