HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008 09 17 Document Given to Commission by Corey Green During Public InputDate: September 17, 2008
The attached document was given to the city
Commission by Mr. Corey Green during "Public
Input" at the September 17, 2008 City
Commission Workshop.
September 17th 2008
Dear Commissioner,
I would like to bring your attention to a hardship which has been passed onto
Winter Spring's firefighters with family/dependant health care coverage. As you are
aware beginning Oct 2°d our firefighters will begin health care coverage under Seminole
County's health insurance plan. New Seminole County employees generally have to wait
30 days before health insurance kicks in. During this time employees would pay
premiums but not have coverage for 30 days. Seminole County has graciously picked up
the cost for employees for this gap, however, not the family/dependant coverage. This is
forcing our firefighters with families to pay an additional monthly premium as charted
below.
Employee and child $244.40/month
Employee and spouse $264.58/month
Employee and family $516.92/month
So in addition to paying our October premiums we will. have to pay September premiums
over 4 pay cycles, basically paying double premiums for the month of September. This
has been one of the unforeseen problems with consolidating services and should,be
considered a cost of doing business born by the employer, not the employee.
Please consider appropriating the required funds to cover this dependant medical
coverage cost.
Thank you,
Corey Green
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Winte Springs Firefighter