# 2025-15777: Actuaries Ditch In-Person Classes: Zoom Education Now Official

2025-15777, Continuing Professional Education Requirements of the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries, is a Federal Register rule from Joint Board for Enrollment of Actuaries published 2025-08-19, effective These changes start now (as of 2026-06-11).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15777
- As of: 2026-06-11
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-15777
- Title: Continuing Professional Education Requirements of the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries
- Type: Rule
- Agencies: Joint Board for Enrollment of Actuaries
- Citation: 90 FR 40231
- Published: 2025-08-19
- Effective: These changes start now
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: 1545-BQ30
- Last updated: 2026-06-11

## In one line

Actuaries Ditch In-Person Classes: Zoom Education Now Official

## Summary

If you're an enrolled actuary, these new rules make continuing education easier by ditching the need to be physically present for courses. They also tweak the rules for actuaries coming back from inactive status and require clearer proof of course hours. These changes start now and won’t cost you extra but will save you time and hassle!

## Abstract

This document sets forth final regulations that amend the continuing professional education requirements for actuaries enrolled by the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries (Joint Board). These final regulations remove the physical presence requirement for formal continuing professional education programs required for active enrolled actuaries and the physical location requirement from course certifications. These final regulations also modify the continuing professional education requirement for certain actuaries who seek to return to active enrollment from inactive status due to their failure to timely satisfy the renewal requirements in the first enrollment cycle after their initial enrollment. Finally, the final regulations add a requirement that certificates of instruction for continuing professional education courses must reflect the hours credited toward the formal program requirement. These final regulations solely address the enrollment and renewal rules of the Joint Board applicable to enrolled actuaries and do not affect pension plans, plan participants, or the general public.

## Effects PRIA read

- No more in-person class requirement: benefit, low. If you're an enrolled actuary, the rule removes the requirement that you be physically present for formal continuing professional education (CPE) programs needed to keep active enrollment. You can meet the formal CPE requirement without attending in-person classes.
- Course certificates no longer need a physical location: benefit, low. If you're an enrolled actuary or a course provider, the rule removes the requirement that course certification include a physical location. Course certificates no longer must list where the course was held.
- Certificates must show credited CPE hours: benefit, low. If you're an enrolled actuary, certificates of instruction for continuing professional education courses must now reflect the hours credited toward the formal program requirement. Your certificate will need to state how many credit hours apply to your CPE.
- Changed CPE rule for certain return-to-active cases: mixed, medium. If you're an enrolled actuary who went to inactive status because you failed to timely satisfy renewal requirements in your first enrollment cycle after initial enrollment, the rule modifies the CPE requirement you must meet to return to active enrollment. The final regulations change how those ret…

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## Sources
- [2025-15777 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/19/2025-15777/continuing-professional-education-requirements-of-the-joint-board-for-the-enrollment-of-actuaries)
- [2025-15777 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-08-19/pdf/2025-15777.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-15777 (as of 2026-06-11).