United States 

Office of 

Personnel Management 

The Federal Government’s Human Resources Agency 

 Retirement and Insurance Service 

Benefits Administration Letter 

Number: 01-303 Date: January 5, 2001

Subject: Compendium of 2000 Payroll Office and Financial Management Letters 

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The attached is a compendium of the Payroll Office and Financial Management Letters issued 

during the 2000 calendar year. If you find that you did not receive any of these letters and 

would like a copy, please refer to our 2000 Payroll Office and Financial Management Letters 

which are available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.opm.gov/asd/htm/pol00.htm and 

http://www.opm.gov/asd/htm/fml00.htm, respectively. 

 

If you have any questions, or to request copies, please contact us on (202) 606-0606, fax us on 

(202) 606-7944, or send us an email, finance@opm.gov. 

 Robert A. Yuran, Chief 

Financial Policy Staff 

Attachments 

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Civil Service Federal Employees Federal Employees Federal Employees 

Retirement Group Life Health Benefits Retirement 

System Insurance Program System
COMPENDIUM OF 2000 PAYROLL OFFICE LETTERS 

P-00-01 03/15/2000 Compendium of 1999 Payroll Office Letters 

P-00-02 01/27/2000 Critical Year 2000 FEHB Open Season Information 

P-00-03 02/07/2000 Critical FEHB Information- American Healthcare Trust 

P-00-04 02/08/2000 Health Insurance Premium Conversion 

P-00-05 02/24/2000 March 2000 Headcount 

P-00-06 03/07/2000 Termination of Humana Health Plan, Inc., (Enrollment Code 

TL) and Amended Instructions Regarding American 

Healthcare Trust, Inc. 

P-00-07 03/16/2000 The March Issue of Modernizing Today- Focusing on the 

Customer 

P-00-08 03/27/2000 Annual Benefits Officers Conference 

P-00-09 04/14/2000 FEDMER Disability Pilot 

P-00-10 08/03/2000 Enrollment Opportunity for Certain Health Alliance Benefit 

Plan (Code FX) Enrollees 

P-00-11 05/04/2000 Joint Benefit Officer/Payroll Office Meeting 

P-00-12 06/27/2000 FEGLI Option C Withholding Rate and Age Bands 

P-00-13 07/13/2000 FEHB Premium Conversion 

P-00-14 08/10/2000 The July Issue of Modernizing Today 

P-00-15 08/04/2000 September 2000 Headcount 

P-00-16 08/02/2000 HB-PC--Clarification of Reporting Requirements for 

Reemployed Annuitants 

P-00-17 08/14/2000 Federal Erroneous Retirement Coverage Corrections Act 

(FERCCA) 

P-00-18 08/11/2000 Payroll Information Improvements 

P-00-19 08/22/2000 HB-PC Message on Earnings and Leave Statement 
COMPENDIUM OF 2000 PAYROLL OFFICE LETTERS (cont.) 

P-00-20 08/25/2000 Health Benefits Premium Conversion- Benefits 

Administration Letter 

P-00-21 09/21/2000 HB-PC -Requirements for "Survivor Annuitants" and 

Processing Reemployed Annuitant Waivers 

P-00-22 09/21/2000 Payroll Office Contact Directory 

P-00-23 10/11/2000 Health Benefits Premium Conversion (HB-PC) for 

Employees in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico 

P-00-24 10/13/2000 Joint Benefit Officer/Payroll Office Meeting 

P-00-25 10/17/2000 FEHB Clearinghouse 

P-00-26 

P-00-27 

10/31/2000 

11-03-2000 

Calendar Year 2001 Interest Rate 

FERCCA – Updated Processing Guidelines 

P-00-28 

P-00-29 

P-00-30 

10/24/2000 

11/03/2000 

CY - 2000 

Year 2001 FEHB Open Season Information 

FEHB Withholding and Contributions for 2001 and other 

Open Season Information 

Not In Use 

P-00-31 11/14/2000 Additional Health Benefits Open Season Information 

P-00-32 11/14/2000 Rollback of CSRS and FERS Withholdings Rates 

P-00-33 

P-00-34 

11/16/2000 

12/04/2000 

Annual Reporting Requirement 

Joint Benefit Officer/Payroll Office Meeting 

P-00-35 

P-00-36 

12/04/2000 

12/14/2000 

The Modernizing Today November 2000 Issue - Web Based 

Services 

Federal Employees Health Benefits – Children’s Equity Act 
COMPENDIUM OF 2000 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT LETTERS 

F-00-01 03/15/2000 Compendium of 1999 Financial Management Letters 

F-00-02 02/08/2000 Health Insurance Premium Conversion 

F-00-03 05/04/2000 Joint Benefit Officer/Payroll Meeting 

F-00-04 08/11/2000 Financial Management Information Improvements 

F-00-05 08/28/2000 Reconciliation of Intergovernmental Balances: 

Accounting for the "Straddling Pay Period" 

F-00-06 09/15/2000 Accounting for Offsets From Pay of Reemployed 

Annuitants 

F-00-07 10/16/2000 2000 Cost Factors for Pension and Other Retirement 

Benefits 

F-00-08 11/15/2000 Fiscal Year 2000 Confirmation of Intragovernmental 

Account Balances 

F-00-09 11/17/2000 Fiscal Year 2000 Intragovernmental Account Balances