Sec. 23-435. - Health care coverage for retirees on disability pensions.
The city shall provide functional employees granted either a service-connected or non-service connected disability pension, with health care coverage substantially the same as provided for all full-time functional employees. The provision of this benefit is contingent upon the functional employee paying, on a monthly basis, 50 percent of the COBRA rates. Such employees shall be required to apply for Medicare as part of their request for social security disability. The city shall continue to provide for and pay the city's health insurance until the pensioner is granted Medicare insurance. When the employee is granted Medicare insurance, the city shall cease such health insurance on the first day of the month in which such Medicare insurance is granted. The city shall provide any pensioner granted such Medicare insurance with prescription drug coverage pursuant to the current plan. Additionally, employees with family health insurance coverage, even though they lose such coverage for themselves because of Medicare eligibility, will retain coverage for eligible family members until the first day of the month in which the retiree turns 65 years of age, or reaches the age of entitlement to Medicare as set by federal law, whichever event comes later, or dies.
(Ord. No. 42809, § 19, 12-21-21)
