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Northbridge Approves Insurance Aid For Survivors: Town To Pay 68% |
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SEPTEMBER 1999 - Northbridge
town meeting members recentlyapproved an article which allows the town
to contribute 68% toward the health insurance cost of the surviving
spouse of a deceased town employee.
Survivors
in that community had previously paid the full 100% premium cost, with
the town making no contribution. The town pays 68% of the premium cost
for employees and retirees.
"Many
of our members were concerned that if they should die their wives would
be hit with a huge insurance premium. This will ease their worries and
also will be a big relief to those widows currently paying 100%," said
Northbridge Retirement Board chairman Paul Sohigian, himself a retiree
and elected member of the Board.
Sohigian
said that fellow Board members John Meagher, Ken Anderson, Alice Ferro,
and Jeanne Sohigian were "behind the town meeting article all the way."
Sohigian also praised town officials and town meeting members who gave
the article their support.
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