It’s still not clear if state government retirees will have to pay health insurance premiums… but if they do, they now have a clearer sense of how much it could cost.
The tentative contract between AFSCME and the state includes a breakdown of the rates that would be charged if a state law ending free retiree health insurance is upheld in the courts.
Retirees would pay 1 to 2 percent of their pensions, effective this July… the rate would double in July of 2014.
But AFSCME says those rates are far lower than what the administration wanted to impose.
