Federal
Employees'
Group Life Insurance
(FEGLI)
Program
SF 2822
Instructions
(page 1
of 2)
Revised December 2013
Instructions
for
Employees
When
should
I
complete
this
form?
You should complete this form if:
•
you are in a position that makes you eligible for FEGLI
coverage (ask your human resources office if you don't
know), AND
•
at least one year has passed since the effective date of your
most recent waiver of Basic, Option A and/or Option B life
insurance, AND either:
you are not enrolled in the FEGLI Program, but would
like to be, OR
you are enrolled in the FEGLI Program, but you have
less than the maximum life insurance available and you
want more life insurance.
What is a waiver of life
insurance
coverage?
A waiver means you:
•
did not elect life insurance coverage when it was available to
you, OR
•
cancelled coverage you previously had, OR
•
elected less than the maximum coverage.
Can
I
use results
of a
physical
I
had last year for
another reason?
No. OFEGLI cannot accept a previous physical. Your physician
or other healthcare provider must perform the physical for the
purposes of this request for life insurance. OFEGLI must receive
this form within 60 days of the date of the physical.
What is
Basic insurance?
It is life insurance based on your annual salary, rounded up
to the nearest thousand dollars (if it is not already an even
thousand), plus $2,000. It includes accidental death and
dismemberment coverage (payment of more life insurance if
you die in an accident or lose a limb or eyesight.)
Basic also includes an Extra Benefit if you are under age 45 when
you die. The amount of Basic payable upon your death will be
double the regular amount if you are age 35 or under when you
die. Starting at age 36, the Extra Benefit reduces by 10 percent
per year, until at age 45 there is no Extra Benefit.
What is
Option A?
It is life insurance equal to $10,000. It is also called Standard
Optional insurance. Option A also includes accidental death and
dismemberment coverage.
Ask your human resources office if you don't know the effective
date of your last waiver, if any.
What
coverage
can I
get by
completing
this form? You
can get Basic, Option A, and Option B, if the Office of Federal
Employees' Group Life Insurance (OFEGLI) approves your
physical. OFEGLI is an administrative unit of Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company that processes these requests and
pays claims for the FEGLI Program.
You cannot get Option C by completing this form.
How do I
complete
this
form?
•
Ask your human resources office to complete Part A.
•
You must complete Part C. Answer all of the questions, or
mark N/A (for not applicable). Do not leave an answer
blank.
•
Bring this form to your physician or other healthcare
provider.
•
Sign in Part C, in the presence of your physician or other
healthcare provider.
•
Ask him/her to complete Part D.
•
Ask him/her to mail the completed form directly to OFEGLI.
•
OFEGLI must receive the form within 60 days of the date of
the physical.
Do
I
have to pay for this
physical?
Yes, you must pay any fee for the physical. Your agency or
OFEGLI cannot pay for it.
What is
Option B?
It is life insurance equal to 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 times your annual salary
(after rounding your salary up to the nearest thousand dollars, if it
is not already an even thousand). It is also called Additional
Optional insurance.
What is
Option C?
It is life insurance for your family, available in 1 to 5 multiples.
Each multiple equals $5,000 for your spouse and $2,500 for each
eligible dependent child. It is also called Family Optional
insurance. You cannot elect Option C by completing this form.
You can only elect Option C during an open enrollment period or
if you have a life event (marriage, divorce, death of spouse, or
adding an eligible child to your family) and you already have
Basic.
When is
coverage effective?
Basic will be effective on the first day you are in a pay and duty
status on or after OFEGLI's approval date.
Option A and/or Option B will be effective on the first day you
are in a pay and duty status on or after OFEGLI's approval date
and on or after the date your agency receives your SF 2817, Life
Insurance Election.
However, if you are not in a pay and duty status within 60 days
after the approval date you will not have Basic insurance (unless
you already had it when you filled out this form), and you cannot
elect Option A or Option B. If you do not submit an SF 2817
within those 60 days, you cannot elect Option A or Option B.
What is pay and duty status
?
This means you are on duty, receiving pay. You are not on
annual leave, sick leave, administrative leave or otherwise absent
from duty.