{"id":2543,"date":"2025-10-09T08:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/?page_id=2543"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:38:57","slug":"service-officer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/resources\/documents\/service-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE has Service Officers who can advise and assist members and their families with benefits, personnel actions, and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) processing.\u00a0Examples include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>filing death and other claims<\/li>\n<li>survivor benefits<\/li>\n<li>changing beneficiaries<\/li>\n<li>electing life insurance options<\/li>\n<li>Thrift Savings Plan<\/li>\n<li>comparing health plans during Federal Health Benefit open season<\/li>\n<li>cutting through red tape and processing delays<\/li>\n<li>how to navigate the OPM website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here\u2019s a recent story of how one <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/10\/2025-10-01-Service-Officer-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Service Officer made a difference<\/a><\/strong> for a federal retiree whose husband died:<\/p>\n<p>Service Officers know OPM\u2018s complex requirements in detail. We encourage members to reach out to a Service Officer whenever help is needed. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/contact-federation-service-officer\/\">Contact California Federation Service Officer<\/a><\/strong> Yvonne Williams, for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE CA Federation Service Officer advises and assists members and their families with benefits, personnel actions, and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) processing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":46,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2543","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2543\/revisions\/2545"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}