Your Questions about FEGLI and WAEPA, Answered. Via Twitter!

Life insurance can be confusing, especially in the federal space, where benefits packages can be overwhelming packets of paperwork, filled with unfamiliar acronyms and pricing tiers.

To help you make sense of your options for life insurance as a Fed, we’ve compiled a helpful Twitter thread of frequently asked questions Feds have about FEGLI and WAEPA.

All tweets are from @waepa_news.

The Basics

First, we’ll start with some background information:

How does FEGLI coverage work?

See this handy guide from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on how to read your Federal Pay Stub (regardless of what agency you work for).

Here’s the link to the FEGLI Handbook produced by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

What is WAEPA?

We’re glad you asked.

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