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Choosing your health insurance option for 2018
New York state active employees: It’s that time of year to start thinking about your 2018 health insurance options.
New York state typically
mails the Planning for Option Transfer fliers to enrollees in late September. The flier describes requirements and enrollment procedures for several benefits and programs, including NYSHIP health benefits, the Pre-Tax Contribution Program (PTCP) and the Opt-Out Program, if applicable. This document is an important
reminder and contains benefit and program deadlines.
If you are thinking of changing health insurance plans during
the Open Enrollment Period,
the NYSHIP Plan Comparison
tool, available on NYSHIP online, generates an actual side-by-side comparison of Empire Plan and HMO benefits. This tool can help you easily compare and contrast services, co-payments, coinsurance amounts and special programs for the Empire Plan and NYSHIP HMOs.
The comparison tool will be
updated with 2018 benefits this fall, at the same time the 2018 Option Transfer Period begins.
To access this tool, visit the NYSHIP Online home page at www.cs.ny.gov/employee-benefits. Select your group and plan, if prompted, and then choose Health Benefits & Option Transfer; click on Rates and Health Plan Choices and the NYSHIP Plan Comparison. Select your group (CSEA) and the counties in which you live and work. Check the box next to the plans you want to compare and
click on Compare Plans to generate the comparison table.
Please watch for more information in upcoming editions.
Vote NO to the Constitutional Convention
“Not only would this be a huge waste of taxpayer dollars, there is no doubt in my mind working people would get the short end of the deal if corporate CEOs, big
“Vote NO. We
need to keep our pensions, benefi”ts, and parklands safe.
— Patricia Patrick, Greenwich Central School District Unit President
“I’m voting no on the Constitutional Convention because there are better ways to amend it without risking all the rights and protections workers have in this state.
business and moneyed interests get their way. Most”
New Yorkers have nothing to gain and everything to lose.
— Colleen Clifford, bus driver, Clarence Central School District and Erie County Educational Employees 1st Vice President
“I'll be voting NO on the Constitutional Convention because I fear that it will affect my pension. I also have two kids in public schools and don't want to see any
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changes th”
at would negatively impact their education.
— Ken McNeil, mental health therapy aide, Kingsboro Psychiatric Center
— Tameka Moses, mental health therapy aide, CSEA local secretary, Kingsboro Psychiatric Center