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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has awarded a new contract to continue the credit monitoring and identity theft protections for millions of federal employees and retirees whose personal information may have been compromised by the 2015 government data breaches.
ID Experts, known as MyIDCare to enrollees, will continue to provide uninterrupted credit and identity monitoring, identity restoration services and identity theft insurance at no cost to them. All enrolled individuals continue to be automatically covered and do not need to take any further action to continue receiving coverage from ID Experts.
When OPM’s credit monitoring contract was about to expire at the end of last year, NTEU was the only federal employee union that wrote to OPM seeking details on what would happen to employees’ credit monitoring and theft insurance. Following NTEU’s letter, OPM announced it was extending its existing contact with the same contractor through the summer. This new contract extends the services through June 2020 but it could be renewed to last through 2026, the end of the 10-year time period the law requires OPM to provide the coverage.
NTEU successfully pressed for that legislation mandating requiring 10 years of protections for OPM hack victims. NTEU will continue to support efforts by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) to move legislation to provide impacted employees with free lifetime identity theft monitoring.
NTEU also continues to move forward with our lawsuit to secure lifetime credit monitoring and identity theft protection for NTEU members. In November, NTEU argued in court that our lawsuit should be allowed to proceed so that OPM is forced to take the necessary steps to secure its data and provide free lifetime credit monitoring and identity theft protection for NTEU members affected by the breaches.