Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 5 : Section 8712


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/03/05
Section 8712. Annual accounting; special contingency reserve

      A policy purchased under this chapter shall provide for an
    accounting to the Office of Personnel Management not later than 90
    days after the end of each policy year. The accounting shall set
    forth, in a form approved by the Office - 
        (1) the amounts of premiums actually accrued under the policy
      from its date of issue to the end of the policy year;
        (2) the total of all mortality and other claim charges incurred
      for that period; and
        (3) the amounts of the insurers' expense and risk charges for
      that period.

    An excess of the total of paragraph (1) of this section over the
    sum of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this section shall be held by the
    company issuing the policy as a special contingency reserve to be
    used by the company only for charges under the policy. The reserve
    shall bear interest at a rate determined in advance of each policy
    year by the company and approved by the Office as being consistent
    with the rate generally used by the company for similar funds held
    under other group life insurance policies. When the Office
    determines that the special contingency reserve has attained an
    amount estimated by it to make satisfactory provision for adverse
    fluctuations in future charges under the policy, any further excess
    shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the
    credit of the Employees' Life Insurance Fund. When a policy is
    discontinued, any balance remaining in the special contingency
    reserve after all charges have been made shall be deposited in the
    Treasury to the credit of the Fund. The company may make the
    deposit in equal monthly installments over a period of not more
    than 2 years.



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