The Office of Personnel Management is in the doghouse, not onlywith members of Congress but also with federal employees andretirees. The reason? Skyrocketing premiums for long-term care insurance.

According to a report in the Washington Post, therehas yet to be any action by OPM toward stabilizing the LTC program for federal employees—despite thefact that members of Congress demanded to know what OPM was goingto do about premium hikes of as much as 126 percent.

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Just a few days after Thanksgiving, the report says, Rep. GeraldE. Connolly (D-VA), the top Democrat on a House governmentoperations subcommittee, pushed to get an answer from John O’Brien,then OPM’s director of health care and insurance under the Obamaadministration, about what OPM planned to do to avoid another suchdebacle.

The coverage, for purchase by federal employees and retirees, isprovided by the John Hancock Life and Health Insurance Co., “withquestionable OPM oversight.”

O’Brien, however, did not provide a satisfactory answer at thehearing, and is quoted in the report saying instead, “We do nothave a proposal that is ready for being shared with the committeeat this time. The options and the discussion that has been offeredaround here goes in a number of different directions. We would liketo evaluate those possibilities and come to this committee and thisgroup with a proposal that we could really play out and we’veweighed all the pros and cons, and we have not yet done that.”

O’Brien declined to provide a timeline on when that might bedone, and Connolly, along with Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), sent a letterThursday—205 days later—asking OPM when it will have a plan toprotect long-term care enrollees from sudden and dramatic premiumincreases. The letter said that, since O’Brien’s answers “were notsufficient,” OPM must provide more detail.

In part, the letter said, “in order to avoid premium price shockeach time there is a new FLTCIP (Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program) contract, wemust have an understanding of how OPM plans to address these urgentmatters going forward.”

Urgent? Hardly, since OPM issued a statement saying, “OPM hasreceived the letter, and we are reviewing it. OPM does not haveanything additional to add at this time.” This after an agencyspokesperson declined to say what, if anything, OPM might have doneto stabilize the program since the November hearing.

And although there were about 274,000 people in the program lastyear, the agency deferred even basic questions concerning thenumber of people currently in the program.

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Needless to say, that does not make Congress happy. Connolly isquoted in the report saying, “The utter fecklessness of that officeand having no answers, no recommendations, no reforms, no proposalsis astounding, and a terrible disservice to the federal employeesand retirees who counted on this service.”

Government retirees in the LTC program are also furious over theway the situation is (not) being handled, criticizing the premiumhikes and the options that were available last year.

Of course, LTC premiums aren’t the only reason Democrats andfederal employees are hopping mad—the other is the plan to slashthe latter’s retirement benefits as spelled out in theadministration’s budget. In fact, in an effort led by Rep. Jamie B.Raskin (D-Md.) and Connolly, Beyer and more than 100 HouseDemocrats, also signed a letter opposing the Trump administration’s planned cuts to federalretirement programs.