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The open season also allows new enrollments or enrollment changes in FEDVIP vision-dental insurance program for both active employees and retirees. The FEHB and FEDVIP programs operate independently of each other, and enrollment choices between them can differ–a self-only enrollment in one but a self-and-family enrollment in the other is allowed, for example. In both programs, if an enrollee makes no changes, a current enrollment will continue in the upcoming calendar year, subject to coverage and cost changes in the plan. The special enrollment period for FEHB in February will not apply to FEDVIP, which has had a self plus one option since its inception nearly a decade ago. The open season does not apply to the FEGLI life insurance program or to the FLTCIP long-term care insurance program; there is to be a rare FEGLI open season next September, however.