FEGLI Benefits Class Action Settlement

FEGLI Benefits Class Action Settlement

By Matt O’Donnell

If you were either legally separated or divorced from a Federal employee prior to July 22, 1998, or are a child of parents fitting this description, you may be entitled to Federal employee retirement benefits as part of a class action lawsuit settlement.

The Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) settlement will resolve a class action lawsuit, titled Claire V. Pascavage v. Office of Personnel Management, that alleges some people who were eligible to receive FEGLI benefits did not receive them.

If any of the following are true, you may be entitled to file a claim with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management for payment of FEGLI benefits as part of the class action lawsuit settlement:

1. You were divorced or legally separated from a Federal employee prior to July 22, 1998, or are children of such Federal employee;
2. The divorce or separation decree granted you Federal Employee’s Group Life Insurance (“FEGLI”) benefits available to you as a result of such Federal employee;
3. The Federal employee died after July 22, 1998;
4. You submitted the decree of divorce or separation to the appropriate Federal agency before July 22, 1998; and
5. You have been denied these FEGLI benefits.

The only way to receive these lost FEGLI benefits is to submit a claim along with any written evidence no later than December 19, 2014.

More information on your rights in the FEGLI Class Action Lawsuit Settlement can be found in the Settlement Notice. Detailed claim filing instructions can be found here.

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