U.S. Postal Service employees and retirees received a scare last month when the Office of Personnel Management reported their share of their health care premiums would skyrocket nearly 19 percent in 2015.
USPS, however, said the reality is not so bad.
OPM said labor-postal management negotiations were to blame for the average postal enrollee in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program encountering an increase nearly five times that of rest of the federal workforce in 2015. The government contribution, OPM said, would actually decrease 0.9 percent.
The Postal Service said the increase in the employees’ share will be far less dramatic, however. Bargaining-unit employees will pay an average of just 1 percent more toward their insurance premiums, according to a USPS spokeswoman, while non-bargaining workers will typically see a 3 percent increase. The overall average premium increase will be 3.4 percent.
USPS will not know exactly how much more each employee is paying for his or her health care until the individual workers choose their plans during Open Season, which is currently under way.
Postal Employees’ Health Care Costs Will Rise Far Less Than Originally Estimated
My premium went up $12.00 a month.
So the average increase is 3.4 percent. Then why did my premium go from $197 per pay period to $264. Somehow that doesn’t seem like 3.4 present. Someones math is terrible.
The employees contribution did go up 18-19% in most plans. The 1% increase toward the WHOLE premium plus the general increase. This is the B/S that management puts out all the time. I can not print what I really feel about them and their lies.
Mine went from over 300 to over 500. 170 month more try that percent. retire and get around 40 percent increase.
Why did my premiums go up 25 per cent then