State Health Benefits Program for Retirees. A. Those employees who had accrued 20 or more years of creditable service as of June 28, 2011, and who accrue 25 years of pension credit or retire on a disability retirement on or after July 1, 2011, will contribute 1.5% of the monthly retirement allowance toward the cost of post retirement medical benefits as is required by law. Until such time as different contribution levels are mandated through legislation or are established by the SHBP or the State Health Benefits Plan Design Committee, those employees who had accrued less than 20 years of creditable service as of June 28, 2011, and who accrue 25 years of pension credit or retire on disability retirement on or after July 1, 2011, will contribute toward the cost of post retirement medical benefits in accordance with the grid established by P.L. 2011, c. 78. In accordance with P.L. 2011, c. 78, the Retiree Wellness Program will not apply to employees who accrue 25 years of pension credit or retire on a disability retirement on or after July 1, 2012, unless otherwise provided by law or as established by the SHBP or the State Health Benefits Plan Design Committee.
State Health Benefits Program for Retirees. A. Those employees who have twenty (20) or more years of creditable service on June 28, 2011 and who accrue twenty-five (25) years of pension credit or retire on a disability retirement on or after July 1, 2011, will contribute 1.5% of the monthly retirement allowance toward the cost of post-retirement medical benefits as is required by law. Those employees who have fewer than twenty (20) years of creditable service on June 28, 2011, and who accrue twenty-five (25) years of pension credit or retire on disability retirement on or after July 1, 2011, will contribute toward the cost of post-retirement medical benefits in accordance with P.L. 2011, c. 78. In accordance with P.L. 2011, c. 78, the Retiree Wellness Program will not apply to employees who accrue twenty-five (25) years of pension credit or retire on a disability retirement on or after July 1, 2012.
State Health Benefits Program for Retirees. (a) The State agrees to assume upon retirement, the full cost of the Health Benefits coverage for State employees and their dependents including the cost of charges under Part B of the Federal Medicare Program for eligible employees and their spouses, but not including survivors, for employees who accrued 25 years of pension service credit, as provided under the State plan, by July 1, 1997, and those employees who retired for disability on the basis of fewer years of pension credit in the State plan by July 1, 1997.
State Health Benefits Program for Retirees. A. Those employees who had accrued 20 or more years of creditable service as of June 28, 2011, and who accrue 25 years of pension credit or retire on a disability retirement on or after July 1, 2011, will contribute 1.5% of the monthly retirement allowance toward the cost of post retirement medical benefits as is required by law. Until such time as different contribution levels are mandated through legislation or are established by the SHBP or the State Health Benefits Plan Design Committee, negotiated between the parties after the expiration of this contract, those employees who had accrued less than 20 years of creditable service as of June 28, 2011, and who accrue 25 years of pension credit or retire on disability retirement on or after July 1, 2011, will contribute toward the cost of post retirement medical benefits in accordance with the grid established by P.L. 2011, c. 78. In accordance with P.L. 2011, c. 78, the Retiree Wellness Program will not apply to employees who accrue 25 years of pension credit or retire on a disability retirement on or after July 1, 2012, unless otherwise provided by law or as established by the SHBP or the State Health Benefits Plan Design Committee.
State Health Benefits Program for Retirees. A. Those employees who had accrued 20 or more years of creditable service as of June 28, 2011, and who accrue 25 years of pension credit or retire on a disability retirement on or after July 1, 2011, will contribute 1.5% of the monthly retirement allowance toward the cost of post retirement medical benefits as is required by law. Until such time as different contribution levels are mandated through legislation or are established by the SHBP or the State Health Benefits Plan Design Committee, negotiated between the parties after the expiration of this contract, those employees who had accrued less than 20 years of creditable service as of June 28, 2011, and who accrue 25 years of pension credit or retire on disability retirement on or after July 1, 2011, will contribute toward the cost of post retirement medical benefits in accordance with the grid established by P.L. 2011, c. 78. In accordance with P.L. 2011, c. 78, the Retiree Wellness Program will not apply to employees who accrue 25 years of pension credit or retire on a disability retirement on or after July 1, 2012, unless otherwise provided by law or as established by the SHBP or the State Health Benefits Plan Design Committee.
