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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Health plans - retiree coverage Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Proposals to Raise Military Retirees' Health Care Premiums Rejected [Guidance Overview] Minnesota State Agency to Pay Damages Plus Insurance Coverage to Resolve Case of 'Age 55 Cliff' Discriminatory Early Retirement Plans Michigan Senate Bill Would Raise Lawmakers' Share of Retiree Health Contribution to 20% of Total Premium [Opinion] How Retirement Benefits Might Sink the States Illinois Legislators Take Aim at Subsidy for Public Employee Retiree Health Insurance Senate Passes U.S. Postal Service Overhaul Michigan Legislature Eyes Pension Changes to Narrow $45 Billion Gap in Teacher Retirement Fund Capping Benefits and Rising Costs of Employer-Sponsored Retiree Health Coverage San Diego to Save More than Expected on Retiree Health [Guidance Overview] Health Plan Sponsors Assessing Effect of 2013 Medicare Part D Indexed Amounts [Guidance Overview] Final Medicare Part D Regulations Include Coverage Gap Discount Program Pennsylvana Company to End Retiree Health Care for 900 [Guidance Overview] As Retiree Drug Subsidy Program Becomes Less Attractive, Employers Consider Using 'Group Waiver Program' Four Employee Benefit Plan Tips for HR and Finance Departments Governor Quinn, Mayor Emanuel: It's Time to Look at Little Rhody [Opinion] Surprise, Illinois! You Owe Another $54 Billion Medicare Coverage Less Generous Than Coverage in Large Employer Plans, When Available For Now, Kodak Backs Off on Retiree Health Benefit Cuts Contrary to Predictions, Boomers Are Retiring in Droves (PDF) Supplemental Group Health Insurance Benefit Strategies for Retirees [Guidance Overview] Municipalities Betting on Pension Bonds to Save the Day? Mortality Study Points to Increasing Pension and Retiree Health Care Costs [Guidance Overview] Early Retirement Supplements Treated As a Protected Benefit Due to Careless Drafting The Early Retiree Reinsurance Program ? Go Forth and Spend Judge Puts Hold on Kodak Cuts to Retiree Health Benefits Employers' Accounting for Pensions and Other Retirement Plans May Be on FASB's 2012 Agenda [Official Guidance] CMS Notice on the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program For States, Tax Revenues Are Up, but Deferred Costs Are Waiting to Be Paid Understanding Finances and Changes in State and Local Government Retiree Health Care (PDF) [Opinion] U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Benefits Council Amicus Brief in Sterling Chemicals, Inc., v. Evans, in Support of Petitioners (PDF) States Facing 96% Unfunded Retiree Benefits [Guidance Overview] Elimination of Benefits Following Spin-Off Did Not Violate ERISA Absent Intent to Interfere with Benefits How Long Does a Retiree Health Benefits Transition Take: Implementation Milestones Deficits Push N.Y. Cities and Counties to Desperation [Guidance Overview] Court Bars Act 111 Arbitrators for Pennsylvania Municipalities from Reducing Post-Retirement Benefits Providence, Ri, Mayor Asks City Retirees to Accept Reduced Pensions and Less Generous Health Care Coverage Taking Advantage of Off-Cycle Retiree Transitions Deadline Set for Use of Early Retiree Reinsurance Program Funds California's Looming Bill for Public Employee Retiree Health Care: $62.1 Billion Kodak Wants to Cut Retiree Health Benefits [Guidance Overview] All Early Retiree Reinsurance Funds Paid Out or Pending, but Two Key Program Dates Still Ahead Chart: OPEB Prefunding Analysis of California Retiree Health Benefits (PDF) State of California Retiree Health Benefits Program: GASB Nos. 43 and 45 Actuarial Valuation Report as of June 30, 2011 (PDF) West Virginia Reins in Public Retiree Health Benefit Costs A New Set of Best Practices for 'Other Post-Employment Benefits' [Opinion] ERIC Urges Congress to Extend and Expand Retiree Health Benefits Paid for with Overfunded Pensions ERRP Reimbursement Requests Exceed $5 Billion Funding Limit Do Public School Teachers Really Receive Lavish Benefits? Obama Compromises Amid Catholic Contraception Coverage Anger Employer Retiree Groups Will Move To Medicare Advantage, but How Soon Is the Question West Virginia Senate Passes Bill to Pay Down Major Liability for Future Health Insurance Costs for Retired State and Public School Employees For 11 States and Puerto Rico, Cost of Employee Benefits Is One of Three Top Fiscal Issues for 2012 (PDF) Providence Is Now on 'the Brink of Bankruptcy,' Mayor Taveras Warns Providence, R.I., Mayor Proposes Benefit Cuts to Avert Bankruptcy Saving Company Retiree Health Plans Establishing and Administering an OPEB Trust PBGC Responds to American Airlines' Letter on Employee Pensions 2012 Hot Topics in Retirement: Survey Highlights (PDF) [Guidance Overview] ERRP Reminder: March 30 Deadline for Submission of Full-Replacement Claim List New York State Retiree Health Liability Rises to $72 Billion; NYC's Is $84 Billion Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. 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