(a) Your FEDVIP premiums are paid on a pre-tax basis (called premium conversion) if you are an active employee or employee of the United States Postal Service, your salary is sufficient to make the premium allotments, and your agency will be able to make pre-tax allotments.

(b) Your FEDVIP premiums are not paid on a pre-tax basis if:

(1) You are an employee or employee of the United States Postal Service in nonpay status or an employee or employee of the United States Postal Service whose salary is not high enough to make premium allotments, or your agency is unable to make pre-tax allotments;

(2) You are an annuitant, a survivorannuitant, or a compensationer;

(3) Your enrollment change was made effective retroactively which resulted in additional premium withholdings, unless it is as a result of birth or adoption of a child;

(4) You have been approved to pay premiums directly to the Administrator;

(5) You are a TEI; or

(6) You are an employee of the United States Postal Service not eligible to enroll in the FEHB Program under part 890 of this chapter.