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Marshall: I am strongly opposed the reduction in healthcare, because on a fixed pension, I cannot survive without healthcare. I’d probably go into bankruptcy….if they don’t maintain my healthcare.
Loretta: While they may talk about legacy costs, the fact is that, when you retire -- and he’s been retired now for 13 years -- is that those costs have diminishing value over the years. And it is wonderful...
Retired NY Telephone
As a senior and a retiree of New York Telephone Company, my husband, when he retired, he had full coverage and it never was supposed to be touched as a retiree. And about seven or eight years ago, we found ourselves in with a Medicare Advantage Plan, which is not accepted by many doctors, and we are paying a sum. And presently, now they’ve moved us out of that particular program and they have us in...
It has changed in both places. From a traditional plan, which some of us call a “Cadillac plan,” because it provided us with many benefits at low cost, we are now in a plan -- forced into a plan -- that does not provide as much benefits, plus costs have risen.
I think that benefits that have been won in the past by negotiations should be recognized and sustained.
I’ve been singing/songwriting for six years. As an artist, on a scale of 1 to 10, I would put saving for retirement at a 1, at a lowest priority. When people tell me to save for retirement as an artist, I insist that it’s not in the cards. Money for my music just comes here and there. It’s not really reliable, and as a bartender, I’m making tips, so it’s just not enough to save for retirement.
Well, right now, at 25, I...
My name is Eileen G.I graduated from Orange Memorial School of Nursing in 1977(Later named for our generous benofactor Winifred B. Baldwin) I worked for 27 years in three different areas as a Registered Nurse on a medical-surgicl floor, our pediatric unit,and the Employee Health Department. I realized in my last year before the hospital was closed (it was being absorbed by Saint...
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