Summary: Incoming federal employees will soon get access to the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program slightly quicker. To try to avoid potential gaps in health care benefits for new hires, the Office of Personnel Management proposed a tweak to the FEHB program that deals with enrollment processing. The wait for new feds to start getting coverage through FEHB can sometimes take several weeks. But after OPM finalizes its proposal, newly eligible enrollees will see “first day” FEHB coverage, once they are on their agency’s payroll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
