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As announced in the December 18, 2017 bulletin, the Healthcare Employees’ Benefits Plan (HEBP) Board is enabling employees affected by the recently announced healthcare layoffs to maintain coverage benefits.

Employees who have been laid off will be allowed to prepay and maintain their benefits coverage for up to 12 consecutive months, regardless of whether they have a scheduled return to work date. This change will be retroactive to October 1, 2017.

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