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[IBM Pension] HRA letter arrived and is it funny
开云体育Per the IBM ExtendHealth Announcement Newsletter, Page 7: "The HRA represents IBM's annual contribution to your health care costs, and will not roll over year to year. Any balance at the end of the calendar year will be forfeited." From: larryrgeorge@... To: ibmpension@... Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:15:40 -0700 Subject: [IBM Pension] RE: HRA letter arrived and is it funny ? I got my letter from IBM today too.? I fall in the $3,500 group, since I retired?June 30, 1991.? But since I want to ensure my wife also has this help, should I die before her, I am going to have to take the reduced amount of $2,600 a year.? ? But I have a further question that is not covered in this letter.? If we have any unused money in our HRA at year end, does the remaining amount carry over to the following year?? Because if you have a Health Savings Account (HSA), any unused money?carries over.? Because you might not have a lot of expenses in 2014, but you could have major expenses in 2015 or later.? No, I have not been drinking.? I would just like to be surprised and find out that IBM is doing something good for their retirees.? But then why should they start doing so now???? ---In ibmpension@..., <ibmpension@...> wrote: Well I just got home from a round of golf and opened the letter from Dr. Rhee on the HRA . It's pretty funny and must have taken a group of staff pukes to put it together. Being I fall in the $3000 a year group it looks like the swizzle of the dollars was pretty interesting. To cut to the chase we will get a form in Nov and we need to make a decision on our spouse. If we choose to have our spouses receive HRA cover after our death then our new HRA will be $2374 a year. Upon our death if we die before our spouse she will get a subsidy of $1187 a year for the rest of her life. If we choose not to give the spouse coverage after our death we will have $3000 in the HRA to use but when we die the spouse gets nothing. I'm still laughing so now you know the whole story. They must have been working on this for at least a year. I like the spin ?LOL. ?Good luck , ? Life is Great |
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