Federal Employees' Retirement System; Present Value Conversion Factors for Spouses of Deceased Separated Employees

What it does

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is revising the table of reduction factors for early commencing dates of survivor annuities for spouses of separated employees who die before the date on which they would be eligible for unreduced deferred annuities. The annuity factor for spouses of deceased employees who die in service when those spouses elect to receive the basic employee death benefit in 36 installments under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) Act of 1986 remains unchanged.

The Personnel Management Office's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

5 CFR 843

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Personnel Management Office has published 29 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 14 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 3206-AP12 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This rule is effective August 24, 2026, unless significant adverse comments are received by July 23, 2026. If significant adverse comments are received, OPM will publish a timely withdrawal of the rule in the Federal Register and issue a notice of proposed rulemaking.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket OPM-2026-0367 on Regulations.gov
• Title 5 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register