05-23-11 Regular Meeting of La Porte City Council

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8.04 Retiree Medical Benefits The following persons are eligible for retiree medical coverage: • City employees who retire from City of La Porte employment who have a combination of Moved (insertion) [1] years of service with the City of La Porte, plus age, totaling 80: and • who retire as a qualified annuitant under the Texas Municipal Retirement System:, • who retire in accordance with the City of La Porte Employee Policies Handbook; Deleted: All applicable costs of the Plan will still apply. • who complete at least 20 consecutive years of service with the City of La Porte, and are Deleted: For those retirees who are self - currently employed by the City of La Porte at the time of their retirement. • employed, occupational illnesses or injuries shall not be covered. Annual contributions by retirees to the health plan will be based on a cost schedule determined by years of service, as established under Section 5, "Premiums ", of • this chapter.¶ Deleted: <# >Present retirees of the City of • La Porte receiving retirement annuities as a Retirees re- employed after retirement from the City of La Porte that have employer sponsored qualified annuitant under the Texas Municipal health care coverage available through the new employer may not continue health coverage Retirement system¶ with the City of La Porte, except for those with 30 years or more tenure with the City of La ¶ <#>Who have retired in accordance with the Porte. • City of La Porte Employee Policies - etirees who dela their retirement annuity - La Porte at shall not be eligible for retiree health coverage from Handbooatand were employed by the City of - - - - -- the time of their retirement. ¶ the City. Betirees who are self - employed are eligible for medical coverage, but occupational illnesses or Deleted` ¶ injuries shall not be covered Moved (insertion) [4] Deleted: ¶ Retirees with Thirty (30) or More Years of Service (Moved (insertion) [2] Deleted: or for retirees reemployed with the If an employee works 30 years or more with the City of La Porte they may maintain the City of City of La Porte, as hereinabove provided. La Porte sponsored health plan as secondary, while working for a new employer offering a Deleted Retirees who are self-employed are health plan option. All applicable costs of the plan will still apply. In the case of Retirees that are eligible for medical coverage, but occupational reemployed by a new employer, and who subsequently separate employment from the new illnesses or injuries shall not be covered employer, a one time deferral shall be allowed whereby the retiree may rejoin the City of La Deleted: Annual contributions by retirees to the Porte health plan as a retiree participant, regardless of age. If a qualifying retiree carried a health plan will be based on the total cost per employee of the plan to the City.¶ spouse as a dependent at the time of their initial retirement, a retiree who rejoins the City of La City employees who retire from City of La Porte Porte health plan as a retiree participant under the one time deferral may include their spouse employment on or after January 01, 2006 and as a dependent, consistent with allowances made under Federal COBRA law. • The Retiree and Moved up [1]: who have a combination i de •endent covera.e will be seconda for Retirees with 30 or more ears -nure with the Cit of of years of service with the City of La La Porte who have em.l • er sponsored health cover.. a availa • le throu • h heir new em • to er • Porte, who retire r ti a as a q lit ied 80; and ¶ re as a ual�ed annuitant under the Texas Municipal Retirement System; who retire in accordance with the City of La Porte • • complete Employee t least 0 years of serrvice with o the City of La Porte, and are currently 0 employed by the City of La Porte at the time of their retirement. All applicable City employees meeting the eligibility requirements for costs of the Plan will still apply. For those retirees who are self-employed, occupational illnesses or injuries shall not • disability retirement under the Texas Municipal Retirement System Act and be covered. Annual contributions by • have been declared permanently disabled under the Social Security Act, and have retirees to the health plan will be based on elected to receive Medicare, Parts A and B, shall be eligible for medical benefits, which a cost schedule determined by years of service, as established under Section 5, "Premiums", of this chapter.¶