To: The North Carolina State House, The North Carolina State Senate, and Governor Roy Cooper
Continued Health Coverage for Retired State and County Employees (65+)
Retirees (State -County ) employees age 65 and older be given same retirement privileges as the State retirees same sex partners and family members do. We just ask for same benefits package seeing as how we paid into the same system.To keep our insurance after age 65 not lose it as we do now,while the State employees keep theirs.Please consider adding us with this Petition.
Why is this important?
With the coverage of other certain parties being allowed we feel that the retirees should be offered the same privileges and the state retirees being that they get benefits for life. The county employees meanwhile lose their benefits at age 65. While the families and the other certain parties just added by congress and state making it legal for them to be counted as family qualify for full benefits as married partners etc. So at least count us as the same as State employees and allow us to draw insurance benefits for lifetime or at a family rate.Hard to live on widows pension.Paid into same system. Their family draws benefits for life so should the paying retirees of county who paid.