---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 8982"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "8982"
heading: "Availability of vision benefits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/8982"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities"
  - "Chapter 89B — Enhanced Vision Benefits"
---

# §8982. Availability of vision benefits

- (a) The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) shall establish and administer a program through which an [eligible individual](/usc/5/8951.md?p=3) may obtain vision coverage to supplement coverage available through chapter 89.
- (b) The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) shall determine, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, the financial requirements for [qualified companies](/usc/5/8951.md?p=5) to participate in the program.
- (c) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the availability of vision benefits provided by [health benefits plans](/usc/5/8901.md?p=6) under chapter 89.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–496, § 3, Dec. 23, 2004, 118 Stat. 4007.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 23, 2004, and applicable to contracts that take effect with respect to the calendar year 2006, see section 7 of Pub. L. 108–496, set out as a note under section 8951 of this title.