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PUBLIC LAW 89-554-SEPT. 6, 1966

[80 STAT.

(d) The policy shall stipulate the maximum expense and risk charges for the first policy year. The Commission shall determine these charges on a basis consistent with the general level of charges made by life insurance companies under policies of group life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance issued to large employers. The maximum charges continue from year to year, except that the Commission may redetermine them for any year either by agreement with the company issuing the policy or on written notice given to the company at least 1 year before the beginning of the year for which the redetermined maximum charges will be effective. § 8712. Annual accounting; special contingency reserve A policy purchased under this chapter shall provide for an accounting to the Civil Service Commission not later than 90 days after the end of each policy year. The accounting shall set forth, in a form approved by the Commission— (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 Commission as being consistent with the rates generally used by the company for similar funds held under other group life insurance policies. When the Commission 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. §8713. Advisors (a) There is an Advisory Council on Group Insurance consisting of the Secretary of the Treasury as Chairman, the Secretary of Labor, and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. The Council members serve without additional pay. The Council shall— (1) meet once a year, or oftener as called by the Civil Service Commission; (2) review the operations under this chapter; and (3) advise the Commission on matters of policy relating to its activities thereunder. (b) The Chairman of the Commission shall appoint a committee composed of five employees insured under this chapter, who serve without additional pay, to advise the Commission regarding matters of concern to employees under this chapter. § 8714. Employees' Life Insurance Fund (a) The amounts withheld from employees under section 8707 of this title and the sums contributed from appropriations and funds

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