5 CFR § 894.816 - If I return from active duty and retire, what happens to my TEI family members' enrollment in their FEDVIP vision plan?
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t5/s894.816"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "5 CFR § 894.816 - If I return from active duty and retire, what happens to my TEI family members' enrollment in their FEDVIP vision plan?"
title_number: 5
title_name: "Administrative Personnel"
section_number: "894.816"
section_name: "If I return from active duty and retire, what happens to my TEI family members' enrollment in their FEDVIP vision plan?"
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS"
part_number: "894"
part_name: "FEDERAL EMPLOYEES DENTAL AND VISION INSURANCE PROGRAM"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 8962; 5 U.S.C. 8992; Subpart C also issued under section 1 of Pub. L. 110-279, 122 Stat. 2604 (2 U.S.C. 2051); and Sec. 894.601(b) also issued under Pub. L. 116-92, 133 Stat. 1198 (5 U.S.C. 8956 note)."
regulatory_source: "73 FR 50184, Aug. 26, 2008, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "894"
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# 894.816 If I return from active duty and retire, what happens to my TEI family members' enrollment in their FEDVIP vision plan?
As a uniformed services member on active duty, you are the *sponsor* but you are not eligible to enroll in a FEDVIP vision plan and you cannot be the *enrollee.* A *TEI certifying family member* may be the *enrollee* while you are on active duty. Upon your retirement, however, you become eligible to enroll as a *TEI-V* and *TEI-D,* and the current *enrollee* status of your *TEI certifying family member* ends. As *sponsor,* you are responsible for notifying the *Administrator* and your *TEI family members* of your change in status. The *TEI family members'* enrollment will be terminated and as a *TEI-V* and *TEI-D* who is both *sponsor* and *enrollee,* you may enroll yourself and cover *TEI family members. See* § 894.601.