MICHIGAN LABORERS' FRINGE BENEFIT FUNDS
Michigan Laborers' Health Care Fund
Michigan Laborers’ Pension Fund
Michigan Laborers’ Vacation Fund
Michigan
Laborers’ Training Fund Managed for the
Trustees by:
Michigan Laborers’ and Employers’ Cooperation
Trust Fund TIC INTERNATIONAL
CORPORATIO
December 2000
TO: All Eligible Participants
RE: Benefit Modifications
Dear
Participant:
As you may know
Board of Trustees routinely reviews the benefits provided by the Fund as well
as the contribution and self-payment rates.
Following review and discussion of the possible cost impact upon the
Fund, the Trustees have made the following benefit and/or eligibility
modifications:
The current
disability benefits provide that participants will be eligible for disability
hour credit provided they are eligible on the date they become disabled. Participants receive five (5) hours a day,
five (5) days per week up to one hundred (100) hours per month. This disability hour credit then maintains
the participant’s health care coverage.
The benefit is
being modified to provide that the participant no longer needs to be eligible
on the date of disability to be credited with disability hours to continue
eligibility.
Supplement to
Medicare Coverage - Effective December
1, 2000
One of the
current provisions for the Supplement
to Medicare Program require that the participant must have at least twenty (20)
years of credited service with the Michigan Laborers’ Pension Fund.
The benefit has
been modified to provide that the participant must have twenty (20) years of
service in the construction industry. The participant will be required to
provide documentation to prove he has been in the construction industry for at
least twenty (20) years. All other
Supplement to Medicare Program requirements must still be met.
The self-payment
rates will be increased by four percent (4%) which is the amount the
contribution rate increased. Your new
self-payment rate will be displayed on your monthly self-payment notice and
will be effective for coverage for the month of February 2001.
Effective January
1, 2001, the Chiropractic Benefits have been increased from $400 per person,
per calendar year to $700 per person, per calendar year.
If you have any
questions regarding the above, please do not hesitate to contact the Fund
Office.
Sincerely,
Michigan
Laborers’ Health Care Fund
Board of
Trustees
/mkm