The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board has changed board death benefit regulations.
The board published the rule, “Uniformed Services Accounts and Death Benefits,” today in the Federal Register.
Some of the changes will make the beneficiary designation form for soldiers and other members of the uniformed services to be the same as the designation form for civilian federal workers, officials say.
The changes will give a federal worker who has both a military account and a civilian account the ability to submit a single beneficiary designation for both accounts, officials say.