{"id":65,"date":"2023-09-29T22:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T22:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:29:34","slug":"links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/resources\/links\/","title":{"rendered":"Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">NARFE<\/span><br>\n<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/magazine-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>NARFE <\/strong><\/em><strong>Magazine\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><br>\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/FH-4-0125-spreads.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NARFE Bylaws<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Office of Personnel Management links<\/span><\/strong><br>\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/healthcare-insurance\/healthcare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB)<\/a><\/strong><br>\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltcfeds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program (FLTCIP)<\/a><\/strong><br>\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opm.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of Personnel Management (OPM)<\/a><\/strong><br>\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/retirement-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OPM Retirement Center<\/a><\/strong><br>\n<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsp.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thrift Savings Plan (TSP)<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opm.gov\/retirement-center\/retirement-quick-guide\/opm-retirement-quick-guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2023 OPM Retirement Quick-Guide<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Security Administration (SSA)<br>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The Social Security Fairness Act Info was posted on January 11th. The Social Security Administration (SSA) has created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/benefits\/retirement\/social-security-fairness-act.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>special page<\/strong><\/a> on its website for additional information as it becomes available. How to obtain the funds federal employees are entitled to. What do they need to do themselves to ensure this? Pam Liebegott, Ann Arbor, Michigan Chapter 0304 Newsletter Editor, has provided a document based on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/01\/2024-01-10-Extract-from-NARFE-CHAPTER-304-NEWSLtr-JAN-2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Experience Applying for Social Security Benefits<\/strong>.<\/a> She has even included some recommendations that members will want to check out.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Other Federal Agency Links<br>\n<\/span><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internal Revenue Service (IRS)<\/a><br>\n<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicare.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medicare<\/a><br>\n<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The United States Social Security Administration | SSA<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>US Legislator Links<br>\n<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/Thune.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senator John Thune<\/a><br>\n<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/Rounds.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senator Mike Rounds<\/a><br>\n<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dustyjohnson.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Representative Dusty Johnson<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sd.gov\/cs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Information about South Dakota<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links to OPM and other agencies that are useful for active employees and annuitants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/1937"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/sd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}