What is FEDVIP? It is the Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program! FEDVIP allows individuals to sign up for supplemental dental and vision benefits.

FEDVIP is available to eligible Federal and Postal employees, retirees, and their eligible family members on an enrollee-pay-all basis. This new Program allows dental and vision insurance to be purchased on a group basis which means competitive premiums and no pre-existing condition limitations. Premiums for enrolled Federal and Postal employees will be withheld from salary on a pre-tax basis. There is no Federal government contribution.

Enrollment takes place during the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) open season. Coverage is effective the first day of the first pay period of the next following year and which follows a pay period during any part of which the employee is in a pay status.

Eligible individuals can enroll in a dental plan and/or a vision plan. They may enroll in a plan for self-only, self plus one, or self and family coverage. Eligible family members include an enrollee's spouse and unmarried dependent children under the age of 22, or if age 22 or older, incapable of self-support. The rules for family members' eligibility are the same as they are for the FEHB Program.

Employees must be eligible for the FEHB Program in order to be eligible to enroll in FEDVIP. It does not matter if they are actually enrolled in FEHB - eligibility is the key. Annuitants are eligible to enroll in FEDVIP no matter what their FEHB status is.

The following insurance carriers offer supplemental dental and vision benefits under FEDVIP: Aetna Life Insurance Company, Government Employees Hospital Association, Inc. (GEHA), MetLife Inc., United Concordia Companies, Inc., Group Health, Inc., CompBenefits, and Triple-S, Inc. offer dental benefits. BlueCross BlueShield Association, Spectera, Inc., and Vision Service Plan (VSP) offer vision benefits.

For more information, please log onto the Office of Personnel Management's FEDVIP homepage.

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