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B-206757 1 (1983-07-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlez0001 and id is 1 raw text is: $o0ULER G4 TH COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . : OF THEI UNITEO STATES WASHINOTON. O.C. 20548 FILE: B-206757 DATE: July 13, 1983 MATTER OF: Eileen C. Seaman - Conversion to Part-Time Employment - Federal Employees Health Benefits Program DIGEST: An employee requested conversion to part-time employment prior to the effec- tive date of the Federal Employees Part- Time Career Employment Act of 1978. The Act's implementing regulations require proration of the Government's contribution to the health benefits plans of part-time employees appointed on or after April 8, 1979, but continue the full Government contribution for employees serving on a part-time basis before that date. Although the agency did not formally approve the employee's conversion to part-time status until after April 8, 1979, the employee began to serve on a part-time basis, with the express approval of District Office officials, more than a month before the April 8, 1979, deadline. Therefore, we concluae that she is entitled to continue receiving the full Government contribution to her health benefits plan. The issue in this decision is whether an employee who changed from full-time to part-time employment is entitled to continuation of the full Government contribution to her Federal Employees Health Benefits plan. We hold that she is so entitled since she began to serve on a part-time basis with the approval of the District Office prior to the effective date of the Federal Employees Part-Time Career Employment Act of 1978. The Act requires that the Government's contribution to a part-time employee's health plan be prorated in accordance with the number of hours regularly worked. However, part-time employees serving prior to the effective date of the Act continue to receive full.Government contributions to their health benefits plans. This decision is in response to a request from Mr. James R. Lawrence, Associate General Counsel of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), concerning the

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