During the election period, a FEDVIP or FEHB enrollee with a same-sex spouse who now qualifies for coverage may change from self-only to self and family coverage (or to self-plus-one, under FEDVIP). Under FEGLI, those spouses and their children are automatically added to existing Option C family coverage, and employees (but not retirees) are allowed to elect basic insurance and to elect or increase optional insurance up to the maximums in each. Under FLTCIP, same-sex spouses typically would have been eligible previously under rules allowing enrollment of same-sex domestic partners who meet certain standards, but during this period they may enroll and use only abbreviated underwriting; they can enroll at other times but will have to use standard full underwriting. In the FSA program, employees with newly qualifying family members may enroll or may increase (but not decrease) the amounts of payroll withholding into existing accounts for both health care and dependent care.
