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Lawmakers press OPM on ‘critical’ staffing, funding issues in Postal insurance program

Less than two months away from this fall’s Open Season, Democrats in Congress are raising concerns that the Office of Personnel Management may not be fully prepared to administer the major health insurance program for millions of Postal Service employees and annuitants.

Top Democrats from several congressional committees sent a letter Friday to OPM Director Scott Kupor to push for answers about key issues recently identified in the new Postal Service Health Benefits program. The letter comes a few months after the agency’s inspector general office found “critical” staffing vacancies and funding issues in the PSHB’s central enrollment platform, which all program participants must use to enroll or make changes to their insurance options.

“Given the potential for severe consequences among PSHB enrollees, the Postal Service, and carriers, we urge that OPM immediately address the critical issues identified in OPM OIG’s flash report,” the lawmakers said in Friday’s letter, signed by the top Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, as well as both congressional appropriations committees.

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