Retired Employees Medical Benefits. For existing retired employees and employees who retire with a Retirement Plan benefit commencement date on or before April 1, 2003, with at least three (3) years of continuous participation either in the contributory benefit of the Retirement Plan or Noncontributory Retirement Plan immediately preceding the employee’s date of retirement, and who are at least age fifty-five (55) but less than age sixty-five (65) and who have five (5) or more years of continuous employment with the Employer, the Employer agrees to continue to provide the Boeing medical plans available to active hourly employees, until the retired employee attains age sixty-five (65). For existing retirees employees who retired and employees who retire, with a Retirement Plan benefit commencement date on or after May 1, 2003, with at least three (3) years of continuous participation in the contributory benefit of the Retirement Plan immediately preceding the employee's date of retirement, and who are at least age fifty-five (55) but less than age sixty-five (65) and who have five (5) or more years of continuous employment with the Employer, the Employer agrees to continue to provide the Boeing medical plans available to active hourly employees, until the retired employee attains age sixty-five (65). Additionally, for employees who are otherwise eligible to retire, but terminate employment on or after July 1, 2007 instead of retiring and who met the requirements above, the Employer agrees to continue to provide the Boeing medical plans available to active hourly employees, until the former or retired employee attains age sixty-five (65). An employee retiring under the Special Layoff provision of the contributory benefit portion of the Retirement Plan also is eligible for medical coverage until the retired employee attains age sixty-five (65). The Special Layoff provision is available to employees who are laid off and have at least fifteen (15) years of continuous service, are age fifty (50) or older, and within five (5) years of reaching the special rule of seventy-five (75) retirement date. The Employer shall offer Boeing medical coverage for the eligible retired employee’s spouse, but not including a same-gender domestic partner until the end of the month in which the surviving spouse remarries . Coverage shall be continued under this provision for the retired employee's dependent child until the child reaches the medical plan’s age limit is no longer eligible under the plan. Insurance cove...
