Open Season Resource Center
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It's open season which means federal workers, retirees and their survivors are updating, enrolling in or changing their benefits package. How can you get the best coverage at the lowest premium? Find out when Walton Francis, author of the Consumer's Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees. joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn. November 22, 2017
November 21, 2017 -
If you work for Uncle Sam and are reasonably healthy, there’s a good chance you can get free health insurance next year.
November 21, 2017 -
You've got more choices than most people know what to do with. Open season is underway, so you've got to pick something between now and Dec. 11.
November 17, 2017 -
Whatever advantages the non-fed health plan has while you are both working will likely disappear when your spouse retires.
November 16, 2017 -
Do you need to get Medicare Part B? What are the advantages of an HMO? What’s the difference between a self only plan, a self-plus-one plan and a family plan? Walton Francis, author of the Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees, will answer those questions and more when he joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn.
November 14, 2017 -
If somebody offered you $2,000 for two hours of work and it's not illegal, immoral or fattening, would you take it?
November 14, 2017 -
If customer service is the most important factor when it comes to picking a federal health plan, how can you judge it unless you try it?
November 13, 2017 -
Participants in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program should take note that Monday, Nov. 13 marks the first day of open season. Here's an at-a-glance rundown of what to expect during open season.
November 10, 2017 -
Put 10 federal workers from 10 different agencies in the same room, and odds are at least six of them have the same health plan.
November 09, 2017 -
The federal health insurance hunting season's over, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says if you fall in love next year, you can have your own open season.
December 14, 2016 -
This week on Your Turn, host Mike Causey interviews federal benefits expert Walton Francis, AAFMAA COO Mike Meese and FEEA executive director Steve Bauer. December 14, 2016.
December 13, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management is giving federal employees and retirees an extra day to make changes to, enroll or cancel their dental or vision plans.
December 13, 2016 -
Federal employees still have to pay attention to their own health care coverage. Open season for 2017 closes midnight tonight. Federal benefits expert Tammy Flanagan joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with some last minute advice.
December 12, 2016 -
How are you going to pay for next year's health and long-term care premiums with only a 1 percent pay raise? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says he has a plan.
December 08, 2016 -
Is there an unnatural act in your future? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says if you are a government worker or retiree, you've got the green light to go ahead.
December 07, 2016