Q & A
I’m losing my employer-paid health insurance on 1/1/15. What do I do now?
Full Question: I am so uneasy with what is happening with my late husband’s retirement benefits. He worked for AT&T and they are stopping his retiree company Medicare coverage which I am enrolled in. What do I do NOW? I am a 73-year-old female who has never purchased insurance before and have no idea of what to look for.
Answer: Many have contacted me about losing their AT&T retiree group medicare benefits and wondering what do I do now? This trend of companies not covering retirees began in the fall of 2013’s Medicare Annual Enrollment Period with Baker Hughes, TRS and CITGO to name a few companies leading the way. I am sure that others having the same problem because the letters informing the retirees are beginning to arrive in their mail box. Your retirement plan is the first that I have heard of for this fall’s Medicare Annual Enrollment Period. I would like for my readers to email me if their company is doing the same and I can post it on thewww.tonisays.com website, so others are aware of what is happening. Read more…
Source: Toni King, author of the new Medicare Survival Guide®, via yourhoustonnews.com - 8/19/2014
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