{"id":2401,"date":"2026-03-13T02:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2026-03-13T02:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:19:11","slug":"webinar-navigating-federal-benefits-in-uncertain-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/2026\/03\/13\/webinar-navigating-federal-benefits-in-uncertain-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar: Navigating Federal Benefits in Uncertain Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE\u2019s next webinar, <strong>Navigating Federal Benefits in Uncertain Times: What Current and Recently Separated Feds Need to Know<\/strong>, will be held Tuesday,\u202fMarch\u202f17, 2026, at 1:00 p.m. CT\/2:00 pm ET. Leaving government service through resignation, termination, reduction in force, or retirement can complicate benefits, entitlements and options.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Benefits Specialist Tony Opat will discuss \u201cretirement eligibility, continuing health and life insurance, appeal rights, and how personnel actions impact benefits\u201d. The second hour will be a live Question and Answer (Q&amp;A) session.<\/p>\n<p>NARFE members can use this free benefit by registering on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/education\/narfe-webinars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NARFE Webinars<\/strong><\/a> page. You must login with your user ID and password to get the member pricing.<\/p>\n<p>About 24 hours later, members can replay the video recording, download the slides and\/or read the transcript of the Q&amp;A session. Information for past webinars is stored on the NARFE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/education\/narfe-webinars\/webinar-archive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>On-Demand Webinars<\/strong><\/a> web page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming NARFE webinar on March 17 will discuss What Current and Recently Separated Feds Need to Know<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/webinar.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}