{"id":25,"date":"2023-12-06T21:28:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T21:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:32:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T20:32:20","slug":"faqs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/resources\/faqs\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Who can join NARFE?<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Membership in NARFE is open to civilians who are or will be eligible to receive an annuity or survivor annuity from the retirement programs of any agency of the United States government, so any of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Current federal employees<\/li>\n<li>Federal retirees<\/li>\n<li>Spouses and surviving spouses of those eligible to join NARFE<\/li>\n<li>Former federal employees<\/li>\n<li>A former spouse who is entitled to a federal survivor annuity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Who makes up NARFE\u2019s National Leadership?<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">The NARFE National Executive Board (NEB) comprises 12 elected members, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/narfe-national-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>National President<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/about-narfe\/leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>National Secretary\/Treasurer<\/strong><\/a> and one regional vice president from each of NARFE\u2019s 10 regions.<\/p>\n<h5>Which NARFE Region includes the Maryland Federation?<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Region II includes Maryland, DC, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.<\/p>\n<h5>Who is the NARFE Regional Vice President for Region II?<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/about-narfe\/leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Schwartz<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>of Brookeville, MD is the Region II Vice President.<\/p>\n<h5>Who are our elected <a href=\"https:\/\/mdnarfe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland NARFE<\/a> Federation Officers for 2025-2027?<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">President:\u00a0 Edward Holland<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">1<sup>st<\/sup> Vice President\/Legislation:\u00a0 Teresa Baker<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">2<sup>nd<\/sup> Vice President:\u00a0 Steve Groom<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Secretary:\u00a0 Melody Kebe<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Treasurer:\u00a0 Gerald Williams<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Chapter 1734 Answers to common questions members or visitors may ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/970"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter1734\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}