{"id":1488,"date":"2025-10-14T15:07:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:14:04","slug":"rise-in-health-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/2025\/10\/14\/rise-in-health-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in Health Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govexec.com\/pay-benefits\/2025\/10\/federal-and-postal-workers-see-double-digit-health-care-premium-increases-again-next-year\/408729\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Federal and postal workers to see double-digit health care premium increases again next year<\/strong><\/a><br>\nGovernment Executive \u2013 *Article quotes William Shackelford, NARFE national president<br>\nFederal employee groups decried the second consecutive year of premium increases eclipsing 10 percent amid a government shutdown and a proposed 1% pay raise for non-law enforcement personnel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fedweek.com\/fedweek\/average-10-premium-hike-in-fehb-plans-for-coming-year-open-season-set-for-nov-10-dec-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Enrollee Premium Share Jumps 11-12 Percent; Open Season Nov 10 \u2013 Dec 8<\/strong><\/a><br>\nFEDweek \u2013 *Article quotes William Shackelford, NARFE national president<br>\nThe Office of Personnel Management has announced that the 2025 Federal Benefits Open Season will take place from November 10 through December 8, 2025. During this time, eligible federal and postal employees, retirees, and annuitants can review, enroll in, or make changes to their health, dental, and vision coverage for the 2026 plan year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE addresses the Open Health Season and the Rise in Costs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/11\/Open-Health-Season-Image-2024.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0289\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}