What is in your Official Personnel Folder?

What documentation should be in the Official Personnel Folder (OPF)?

◦    The beginning and ending dates for each period of employment which will be used for your benefit computation;

◦    The effective dates for each promotion or within-grade increase during the period that will be used to compute your high-3 average salary;

◦    The dates of pay changes or earnings and the pay rate, during employment periods when retirement deductions were not withheld from your salary;

◦    The tour-of-duty during any part-time employment (if you worked more hours than the official tour-of-duty, document the hours actually worked.);

◦    A record of time actually worked during intermittent or "when-actually-employed" service; and,

◦    Documentation of the dates of military service.

◦    Your Official Personnel Folder should contain a record of your current Federal life insurance coverage on a Standard Form 2817

◦    Your current life insurance designation of beneficiary, Standard Form 2823

◦    Your Official Personnel Folder should contain a record of all of your health benefits registration forms, Standard Form 2809, and, if appropriate, Standard Form 2810

If any service is not verified or any of the required documentation is missing, you should obtain assistance from your personnel officer.