FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' GROUP LIFE INSURANCE PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00065A000200020008-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 20, 1954
• Content Type: MEMO

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UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
Bureau of Departmental Operations August 20, 1954
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' GROUP LIFE INSURANCE PROGRAM
Due to the demand for an early effective date, coverage under the life in-
surance law approved by the President on August 17, 1954 will be effective on the
first day of the first pay period beginning after August 28, 1954, unless the head
of your agency applies to the Civil Service Commission for an exception and the
exception is granted.
Announcements and waivers such as the samples which have been given you are
now being printed. They will be sent to you in ample quantity by the Government
Printing Office through regular distribution channels within the next few days
without requisition and at no cost to your agency. .
The announcements should be distributed to your employees as soon as possible
after they are received. The waiver forms should be given out only upon request
of an employee who does not wish to participate in the insurance program.
Your initial supply of the insurance certificates for the insured employees
and other necessary forms will also be sent through regular distribution channels
as soon as they have been printed. Thereafter, you will have to requisition them
from the Civil Service Commission which will stock all forms. There will be no
charge to your agency for insurance forms at any time.
Regulations will be printed in the Federal Register within the next two weeks.
General instructions and procedures will be contained in a forthcoming chapter on
:Insurance in the Federal Personnel Manual. Permanent accounting instructions to
supersede the preliminary instructions you now have will be sent to you as soon as
they are completed.
Upon an employee's death)-insurance benefits are payable in the same order
of precedence as lump sum retirement benefits (see page R-560, F.P.M.). An employee
does not have to designate a beneficiary if he is satisfied with this order of
precedence. If an employee insists on naming a beneficiary before the standard
beneficiary form is available he may do so by a simple writing which identifies him,
names one or more beneficiaries for insurance purposes, is signed by him and wit-
nessed by two disinterested persons. Such temporary designations should be in dup-
licate, one receipted copy retained in his official personnel folder or its equiva-
lent and the other receipted copy returned to the employee. It must be replaced by
a standard form when available.
This memorandum, together with the other material given you today is intended
to answer some of the more obvious questions which will arise. I ask your coopera-
tion in holding all but the most urgent questions until after the regulations and
general instructions have been distributed and in otherwise getting the insurance
program off to a good start. If you should have an urgent accounting question to
which you cannot find an answer, call Code 141, Extension 3067; if the question is
of a legal or general nature, call Code 141, Extension 47
Wth ren B. -ins
Director
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