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H.R. 7868, FEHB Protection Act As ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on April 10, 2024 By Fiscal Year, Millions of Dollars20242024-20292024-2034Direct Spending (Outlays)000Revenues000Increase or Decrease (-) in the Deficit000Spending Subject to Appropriation (Outlays)0-945-3,793Increases net direct spending in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2035?NoStatutory pay-as-you-go procedures apply?NoMandate EffectsIncreases on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2035?NoContains intergovernmental mandate?NoContains private-sector mandate?NoThe bill wouldRequire agencies to verify the eligibility of dependents enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits program when the employee or annuitant starts or changes a dependent’s enrollmentRequire the Office of Personnel Management to audit dependents’ enrollment in the programExpand fraud risk assessments of the program to include information on ineligible enrolleesDeny enrollment to ineligible dependents or disenroll them from the programEstimated budgetary effects would mainly stem fromConducting an enrollment audit of the programDisenrolling ineligible dependentsAreas of significant uncertainty includePredicting the number and timing of dependents who would be found ineligibleProjecting the reductions in spending that would be generated by disenrollment of ineligible dependents
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