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[CITE: 5USC8703]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart G--Insurance and Annuities
 
                       CHAPTER 87--LIFE INSURANCE
 
Sec. 8703. Benefit certificate

    The Office of Personnel Management shall arrange to have each 
insured employee receive a certificate setting forth the benefits to 
which he is entitled, to whom the benefits are payable, to whom the 
claims shall be submitted, and summarizing the provisions of the policy 
principally affecting him. The certificate is issued instead of the 
certificate which the insurance company would otherwise be required to 
issue.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 593; Pub. L. 95-454, title IX, 
Sec. 906(a)(2), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1224.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                    Revised Statutes and
     Derivation                U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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                     5 U.S.C. 2098.                Aug. 17, 1954, ch.
                                                    752, Sec.  9, 68
                                                    Stat. 742.
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    The words ``each insured employee'' are coextensive with and 
substituted for ``each employee insured under such policy''.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.


                               Amendments

    1978--Pub. L. 95-454 substituted ``Office of Personnel Management'' 
for ``Civil Service Commission''.


                    Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 95-454 effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, 
see section 907 of Pub. L. 95-454, set out as a note under section 1101 
of this title.
