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Important Health Insurance Update

April 2, 2012
The following was agreed to by this Association with the City of Syracuse:
Starting in the March check, health insurance premiums will increase from $30.00 to $45.00 for family coverage and from $15.00 to $30.00 for single coverage. Those on Medicare will remain the same. Those on Medicare who pay single coverage will increase to $30.00 and those on family will increase to $45.00.

January 29, 2012
Regarding the insurance premium increase that effected many of our retirees in their January retirement checks, we have the following update from Bill Ryan via email:

In a message dated 1/29/2012 4:00:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, William Ryan writes:
"I want you to be aware that pursuant Jim Michael's letter to retirees regarding healthcare, I had a discussion with all parties including the Mayor and Jim Ennis and we decided that we would hold off on these increases as of January and discuss them further. I informed Jim of that and was under the impression that was what was going to occur. I just very recently learned that the increased premium will in fact come out of retirees checks in the next few days. It appears that somewhere on our end that message was not clearly communicated. I certainly apologize for that and hope this arms you with information when you get calls over the next few days."

In a message dated 1/29/2012 9:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Robert Smith writes in response:
"I am very disturbed about the premium cost because I have already told many members that nothing would change until we met in January. It would seem that the easy way out would be for those not covered by the contract to wait until the Police contract is settled and then you could settle the problem with the Police and Fire retirees."

Police and Fire Retirees Health Protection Legislation

Important healthcare legislation update. If passed, this bill will provide for you to keep the same health insurance as when you retired.

Important Medicare information concerning Medicare Drug Coverage.

Let's Fight Cancer

Please note that we are providing access to a web site link as requested by Bill Newland of the Binghamton retirees. As noted, it is dedicated to the mission of eradicating cancer: http://www.letsfirecancer.org.

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