United States

Office of 

Personnel Management 

The Federal Government’s Human Resources Agency

Benefits Administration Letter

Number: 19-107 Date: September 18, 2019 

Subject: Process Change for Handling Reemployed Annuitants

PURPOSE: To announce that OPM has streamlined the process for handling reemployment 

actions. All notifications of reemployment will be sent to a new email box, where the actions 

will be processed by special teams. The notification of reemployment will be consolidated in a 

new form. In addition, there is a new form that notifies OPM of separations from dual 

compensation appointments or separations from a period that did not involve the equivalent of 

one full year. This process will be effective October 1, 2019. 

BACKGROUND: Currently, agencies notify OPM when employing an annuitant using Job 

Aid #5 located in the CSRS/FERS Handbook chapter 100. Agencies also complete the OPM 

1482 and either fax the forms or send them via regular mail to the PO Box in Boyers, PA. In 

addition, agencies send an email to the HBPremium@opm.gov mailbox to notify OPM’s Health 

Benefits office that FEHB coverage needs to be suspended.

During the reemployed period, agencies must update OPM with any actions that could 

potentially affect the annuity. For instance, if a CSRS annuitant who retired under a 

Discontinued Service Retirement was initially hired under a non-covered appointment, the CSRS 

annuity would continue but if the appointment then changed to a covered appointment, the CSRS 

annuity would terminate. This notification would be sent to the PO Box in Boyers, PA. In 

addition, agencies must obtain any updated amount of a change in the gross annuity that may 

happen throughout reemployment, such as the Cost Of Living Adjustment. There is currently no 

specific point of contact at OPM for this inquiry. 

Upon separation from reemployed service, agencies prepare a retirement package if the annuitant 

is entitled to a supplemental or redetermined annuity. However, if the reemployment had been 

under a year or if it had been under a dual comp waiver, often OPM is not notified of the final 

separation and therefore reinstatement of suspended FEHB and FEGLI coverage is delayed. 

Our goal is to improve the entire reemployed process by streamlining the communication path 

between agencies and OPM and by consolidating all information needed from the agency 

regarding the nature of the reemployment into one notice while creating a second notice that 
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alerts OPM of final separations from dual compensation appointments or from service that did 

not meet the equivalent of the one year threshold for an additional benefit. 

The new process is outlined below:

New Reemployed Email Box 

To facilitate the efficiency of the new reemployed annuitant process, OPM has created a new 

email box: ReemployedAnnuitant@opm.gov. This email box is specifically set up for sending 

reemployed annuitant processing information to OPM. In this way, OPM can act on the 

reemployment in a timelier manner than was possible with the submissions by fax and regular 

mail. Agencies should stop using regular mail and fax to communicate with OPM about 

reemployed annuitants. 

Reemployment Email box instructions

ReemployedAnnuitant@opm.gov has been set up to allow agencies to:

• Report reemployment of a CSRS or FERS annuitant; 

• Report a change in the appointment status of an annuitant that affects the annuity;

• Submit agency report of separation of a reemployed annuitant who was under a dual 

comp waiver or who did not perfect title to a supplemental and needs reinstatement of 

FEHB and/or FEGLI coverage;

• Request annuity updates due to a legislative Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) increase. 

OPM will also use this email box to send the applicable retirement information back to the 

agency. 

Required Email Subject Line Text

When sending a notice to OPM through ReemployedAnnuitant@opm.gov, the agency is 

required to enter one of the following Subject Lines for the email: 

• “Notice of Reemployment of a Non-Disability Annuitant” or

• “Notice of Reemployment of a Disability Annuitant”

It is important to distinguish whether the annuitant retired on a disability or a non-disability 

retirement since there are different teams that handle these types of retirements.

Elimination of HBPremium@opm.gov Email Box

Since ALL reemployment information will be reported by agencies through the 

ReemployedAnnuitant@opm.gov email box, there is no longer a need for the 

HBPremium@opm.gov email box. Effective September 1, 2019, this email box will no longer 

accept emails. 
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Notification To OPM Of Reemployment Of Annuitant

As mentioned earlier in this Letter, OPM has combined Job Aid #5(CSRS FERS Handbook 

Chapter 100) and OPM 1482 to reflect all information needed for annuity, FEGLI, and FEHB 

determinations into one form entitled: “Notification to OPM of Reemployment of Annuitant” 

(Attachment 1). Agencies must submit this form to the ReemployedAnnuitant@opm.gov email 

box when an annuitant is reemployed. OPM is mandating that the SF 50 must accompany the 

form in this new process. We will be obtaining an RI number for this form in the near future.

The SF 50 tells us the effective date of the reemployment, the type of appointment, the annuitant 

indicator code (Block 28) and the retirement coverage (Block 30). Note: Please be sure that the 

retirement coverage and annuitant indicator are correct before sending information to OPM for 

processing. The annuitant indicator will tell us if there is a dual comp waiver in effect as 

opposed to a regular salary offset (dual comp waiver codes: 0,6,7,8,G,H,J,K). 

Update to RI 20-46: Information You Requested Regarding a Reemployed Annuitant

Upon notification of a reemployment, OPM will send the agency the RI 20-46 via the 

ReemployedAnnuitant@opm.gov email box. This form provides important information on the 

annuitant such as the monthly annuity amount for the salary offset, the retirement coverage, and 

life insurance coverage at the time of retirement. 

Agency Responsibilities after Initial Reemployment Notification

Throughout Reemployment

• Agency offsets salary (updated by COLAs or other reasons for change in the gross 

amount), if applicable. 

• Agency (Payroll) maintains the Individual Retirement Record. 

• Agency notifies OPM of significant change in appointment (intermittent appointment; 

covered/non-covered appointment begins/ends; dual comp waiver begins/ends...). 

Upon Separation from Reemployment When a Supplemental/Redetermination is

Applicable

• Agency prepares and sends benefits application package if a supplemental/redetermined 

annuity is payable. 

• The retirement package is sent through the normal channel. 

Upon Separation from Dual Comp Waiver Appointment or Separation Prior to One Full 

Year of Employment

Agency completes the “Notification to OPM of Separation of a Reemployed Annuitant- No 

Benefits Payable” (Attachment 2) upon termination of reemployment if the annuitant was under 

a dual comp waiver or if a reemployed annuitant did not have enough service to earn a 

supplemental benefit. This form, along with the separation SF 50, must be sent via the 

ReemployedAnnuitant@opm.gov email. The form also asks agencies to provide their email 
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address so that OPM can send any applicable responses via email. We will be obtaining an RI 

number for this form in the near future. 

The procedures outlined in this Benefits Administration Letter will now be in effect for actions 

pertaining to onboarding and separating reemployed annuitants that span the initial 

reemployment notification, the period of reemployment, and separation from reemployment. Job 

aids related to reemployed annuitant processing will be updated in the CSRS and FERS 

Handbook chapter 100. 

Kenneth J. Zawodny, Jr. 

Associate Director

Retirement Services