United States Office of Personnel Management

The Federal Government’s Human Resources Agency

Benefits Administration Letter

Number: 22-402 Date: October 14, 2022

Subject: 2022 Federal Benefits Open Season: 

Ordering and Distributing Materials and Conducting 

the Open Season

This Benefits Administration Letter (BAL) is the second in our series of 2022 

Federal Benefits Open Season BALs. This BAL (22-402) provides instructions 

for ordering and distributing Open Season materials including programspecific materials for the Federal Flexible Spending Account Program 

(FSAFEDS), Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program 

(FEDVIP), and Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program. This BAL 

also provides instructions on conducting the Federal Benefits Open Season. 

This year’s Federal Benefits Open Season will run from Monday, 

November 14 through Monday, December 12, 2022.

The following attachments provide information regarding your 

responsibilities for the upcoming Federal Benefits Open Season:

• Attachment 1: Provide Information about the Federal Benefits Open

Season

• Attachment 2: Process Enrollment Actions

Open Season resource materials will be available on our website. 

You may distribute this link to the materials to your employees.
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Brochures

Encourage your employees to access all FEHB brochures online. 

All FEHB and FEDVIP brochures are available on the OPM website in a 

Section 508-compliant format. Individuals may download a PDF version of 

the brochure for printing, if desired.

Please be aware that the deadline has now passed to order print FEHB Feefor-Service (FFS) health plan brochures. If you did not order a supply of FFS 

health plan brochures, you can access these FEHB Brochures on our website.

You can request printed HMO plan brochures directly from the health plan 

contacts as described below.

You may obtain printed FEDVIP brochures from the FEDVIP plans directly. 

You can also download the brochures and find dental and vision plan contact 

information. 

You may also obtain FSAFEDS marketing materials.

Plan Contacts

Plan contact information for items listed below are available on our website. 

• FEDVIP Plan Contacts for Requesting Brochures and Organizing Open 

Season Fairs

• FEHB Plan Contacts for Requesting HMO Brochures

• FEHB Plan Contacts Regarding Enrollment

• FEHB Plan Contacts for Ordering Materials for the Visually Impaired

• FEHB Plan Contacts for Organizing Open Season Fairs

Health Fairs

Contact the individual FEHB Carriers to request their participation in health 

fairs (in-person or virtual). Plan contacts for health fairs are available on our 

website. 

Public Use Files 

The purpose of the OPM FEHB and FEDVIP Plan and Benefits Information 

(PBI) Public Use Files (PUFs) is to provide agencies with detailed information 

on FEHB and FEDVIP plans in Excel format, including information on rates 

and benefits. This data will be available for download in October. 

The PUFs are designed for agency system use. Please direct your employees

to the Plan Comparison Tool or the Plan Information pages. 
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Premiums

FEHB and FEDVIP premiums will be posted on our website in October. For 

2023 there are several FEHB choices where the enrollee share of premiums 

for the Self Plus One enrollment type will be higher than for the Self and 

Family enrollment type. Enrollees who wish to cover one eligible family 

member are free to elect either the Self and Family or Self Plus One 

enrollment type. Enrollees should carefully check the rates of their current 

plan and any other plan options they are considering. If the Self and Family 

enrollee premium is less expensive, they may want to choose that 

enrollment type.

Additional Information

If you are not already receiving the Benefits Info Listserv, please subscribe

by sending an email to BENEFITSINFO@LISTSERV.OPM.GOV. In the body of 

the email, please indicate that you would like to be added to the listserv and 

include your first and last name.

For specific questions about the Federal Benefits Open Season, please 

contact your agency’s benefits officer. If you do not know who the benefits 

officer is, please refer to http://apps.opm.gov/abo/ where you will find a list 

of agencies and their headquarters-level benefits officers. 

Sincerely,

Laurie Bodenheimer

Associate Director

Healthcare and Insurance