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Employers Cannot (Yet) Offer Different Levels Of Benefits To Medicare Eligible Retirees


by Blank Rome LLP View Firm Credentials
Philadelphia Office

March 27, 2006

Previously published on May 2005

Employers are continually faced with ever-increasing healthcare costs. In an attempt to control these costs, many employers implemented retiree health benefit plans that reduced the level of benefits they provided to Medicare-eligible retirees. Labor unions responded favorably to such arrangements, recognizing that this approach was better than the alternative of discontinuing retiree health benefits altogether.


 

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