Civil Service
Retirement
System
Federal Employees’
Group Life
Insurance Program
Federal Employees
Health Benefits
Program
Federal Employees
Retirement
System
Long Term
Care Insurance
Program
United States
Office of
Personnel Management
The Federal Government’s Human Resources Agency
Retirement and Insurance Service
Benefits Administration Letter
Number: 02-301 Date: January 4, 2002
SUBJECT: HB-PC - ANNUAL REPORTING REQUIREMENT
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The Internal Revenue Code requires that administrators of cafeteria plans file an annual information return
on the Form 5500 – Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan – with an attached Schedule F –
Fringe Benefit Plan Annual Information Return. To fulfill our Form 5500 reporting responsibilities as the
administrator of Health Benefits Premium Conversion (HB-PC), we will need input from all agencies of
the Executive Branch of the Federal government that have participating employees.
Our Form 5500 submission to the IRS for tax year 2001 will be based on the information that Executive
Branch agencies provide to us on the attached Input for Form 5500. If an agency has adopted HB-PC for
the benefit of its employees, but is not part of the Executive Branch, it will not submit an Input for Form
5500 to OPM, but must file its own Form 5500 directly with the IRS.
As the tax year 2001 Form 5500 for HB-PC must be submitted to the IRS by July 31, 2002, we will need
Executive Branch agencies to complete the Input for Form 5500 and fax it back to us no later than June 1,
2002; our fax number is 202-606-7944. If an agency performs payroll cross-servicing functions, it must
include on its Input for Form 5500 information for its own agency as well as for all client Executive
Branch agencies. Likewise, if an agency’s payroll functions are cross-serviced, it will not submit an Input
for Form 5500 to OPM.
If you have any questions about the matters discussed in this letter, we would prefer that you email them to us
at finance@opm.gov
, so that we may retain a record of them. You may also call us on
(202) 606-0606.
Robert A. Yuran, Chief
Financial Policy Staff
Retirement and Insurance Service
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