Topic: Benefits

Deteriorating health benefits for Texas school employees are just one part of a bigger story

Publish Date: April 23, 2018

The April 20 Hotline reported the continuing health-care cost increases and benefit cuts facing current Texas school employees, spotlighting the damage incurred by TRS-ActiveCare participants as a result of stagnant state contributions that cover less and less of the costs. An upcoming Hotline will fill in the details of the damage, but first let’s recognize that this latest hit is...

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They Can Run, But They Can’t Hide—Call Your U.S. Senators This Week About a Bad Health-Care Bill

Publish Date: July 6, 2017

Senators are home for July Fourth recess this week, and many Republican senators are refusing to hold town halls because they know voters are outraged over the cruel health-care bill their party leaders are trying to ram through the Senate. They can run, but they can’t hide. Call your senators’ state offices now and demand they oppose Trumpcare. Even though...

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Interim Pension Studies Set Stage for State Legislative Action in 2017

Publish Date: November 10, 2015

The framework for a much-needed infusion of state health-care funding this year for retired school employees, forestalling significant premium increases and benefit cuts, was set by interim House committee hearings in 2014. Hence it gets our attention when we see what House Speaker Joe Straus has asked the House Pensions Committee to study during the current interim leading up to...

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