---
kind: "unit"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
key: "ptIII/sptG/ch87"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 87"
heading: "Life Insurance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/ptIII-sptG-ch87"
sections_count: 20
---

# Chapter 87 — Life Insurance

Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees › Part III — Employees › Subpart G — Insurance and Annuities

## Sections

- [§8701. Definitions](/usc/5/8701.md)
- [§8702. Automatic coverage](/usc/5/8702.md)
- [§8703. Benefit certificate](/usc/5/8703.md)
- [§8704. Group insurance; amounts](/usc/5/8704.md)
- [§8705. Death claims; order of precedence; escheat](/usc/5/8705.md)
- [§8706. Termination of insurance; assignment of ownership](/usc/5/8706.md)
- [§8707. Employee deductions; withholding](/usc/5/8707.md)
- [§8708. Government contributions](/usc/5/8708.md)
- [§8709. Insurance policies](/usc/5/8709.md)
- [§8710. Reinsurance](/usc/5/8710.md)
- [§8711. Basic tables of premium rates](/usc/5/8711.md)
- [§8712. Annual accounting; special contingency reserve](/usc/5/8712.md)
- [§8713. Effect of other statutes](/usc/5/8713.md)
- [§8714. Employees’ Life Insurance Fund](/usc/5/8714.md)
- [§8714a. Optional insurance](/usc/5/8714a.md)
- [§8714b. Additional optional life insurance](/usc/5/8714b.md)
- [§8714c. Optional life insurance on family members](/usc/5/8714c.md)
- [§8714d. Option to receive “living benefits”](/usc/5/8714d.md)
- [§8715. Jurisdiction of courts](/usc/5/8715.md)
- [§8716. Regulations](/usc/5/8716.md)