PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

A policy bought under this chapter must send the Office of Personnel Management an accounting no later than 90 days after each policy year ends. The report, in a form OPM approves, must show three things for that year: the premiums actually charged from issue to year end, the total death and other claim charges, and the insurer’s expense and risk charges. If premiums are more than the claims plus expenses, the company must hold the difference as a special contingency reserve to pay only policy charges. The reserve earns interest at a rate set in advance each policy year by the company and approved by OPM. When OPM decides the reserve is large enough to cover likely bad swings, any excess must be sent to the U.S. Treasury for the Employees’ Life Insurance Fund. If the policy ends, any remaining reserve after charges also goes to that Fund; the company may pay that deposit in equal monthly installments over up to 2 years.

Title 5, §8712

Government Organization and Employees, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

A policy purchased under this chapter shall provide for an accounting to the Office of Personnel Management not later than 90 days after the end of each policy year. The accounting shall set forth, in a form approved by the Office—

(1)the amounts of premiums actually accrued under the policy from its date of issue to the end of the policy year;

(2)the total of all mortality and other claim charges incurred for that period; and

(3)the amounts of the insurers’ expense and risk charges for that period.

An excess of the total of paragraph (1) of this section over the sum of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this section shall be held by the company issuing the policy as a special contingency reserve to be used by the company only for charges under the policy. The reserve shall bear interest at a rate determined in advance of each policy year by the company and approved by the Office as being consistent with the rates generally used by the company for similar funds held under other group life insurance policies. When the Office determines that the special contingency reserve has attained an amount estimated by it to make satisfactory provision for adverse fluctuations in future charges under the policy, any further excess shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Employees’ Life Insurance Fund. When a policy is discontinued, any balance remaining in the special contingency reserve after all charges have been made shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the Fund. The company may make the deposit in equal monthly installments over a period of not more than 2 years.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

DerivationU.S. CodeRevised Statutes andStatutes at Large 5 U.S.C. 2097(d).Aug. 17, 1954, ch. 752, § 8(d), 68 Stat. 741. The words “A policy purchased under this chapter” are substituted for “Each such policy” for clarity. The word “insurance”, preceding the word “company”, is omitted as unnecessary; and the word “company” is substituted for “company or companies” on authority of 1 U.S.C. 1. The words “Employees’ Life Insurance Fund” are substituted for “fund”. Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1978—Pub. L. 95–454 substituted “Office of Personnel Management” and “Office” for “Civil Service Commission” and “Commission”, respectively.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1978 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 95–454 effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.

§8712 Annual Accounting; Special Contingency Reserve