Vern Larson, Avaya Retirees Chapter PresidentAvaya, a corporate telecommunications company, was created on October 2, 2000, as a spin-off from Lucent Technologies. The NRLN Avaya Retirees Chapter was formed in April 2016 because retirees were concerned that their pension plan was underfunded by 30 percent. On Jan.19, 2017, Avaya filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy the first of two times. The bankruptcy …
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June 18, 2024The Honorable Xaiver Becerra, Secretary Health and Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201Dear Secretary Becerra:After you read the attached June 15 article about Dan Lispi who is battling cancer and Anthem, his Medicare Advantage (MA) insurance company, I urge you to agree that Anthem deserves 0 Stars instead of its average Star rating from CMS …
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Michael Calabrese | National Retiree Legislative Network ERISA Advisory Council United States Department of Labor Hearing on PENSION DE-RISKING AND FIDUCIARY STANDARDS FOR DISTRIBUTED ANNUITIES | July 18, 2023Introduction Michael Calabrese, Senior Policy Advisor to the National Retiree Legislative NetworkMy name is Michael Calabrese, Senior Policy Advisor to the National Retiree Legislative Network, also known as the NRLN. The NRLN is a non-partisan, …
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For several years I have researched and written about how Medicare Advantage (MA) has been using federal government subsidies to offer special benefits that are denied to original Medicare enrollees. In my latest position paper (August 17, 2022), I noted that MA will cost taxpayers $53 billion in 2022 and the projection is that by 2030 the costs will be …
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Delphi Retirees Chapter Members’ Corporate LinageWikipedia serves and as an ancestry family tree for Delphi Retirees Chapter members. Their roots go back to National Cash Register Company (NCR) co-workers Charles Kettering and Edward Deeds. Working in Deeds’ barn in their spare time around 1908 they worked on developing a high-energy spark ignition system.Formation of DelcoIn 1909, Henry Leland of Cadillac …
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ACTION ALERT INSTRUCTIONS Click on the “TAKE ACTION” button below the Vote to Restore Delphi Salaried Retirees Pensions. Next, enter your street address and zip code, and click “GO”. It will present the sample letter for you to email to your Representative. If you have a problem with this link, go to www.nrln.org and click the Action Alert headline at …
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By Jake JohnsonCommon Dreams, February 25, 2022Rejecting pressure to terminate the program in its entirety, the Biden administration on Thursday announced it is redesigning a Trump-era experiment that physicians and progressive lawmakers have criticized as a scheme to fully privatize Medicare.Instead of ending what’s known as the Direct Contracting model, which the Trump administration officially launched in 2020, the Centers …
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NRLN Provides New “Report Card” Feature on Members of Congress BACKGROUND The NRLN Report Card is useful to our members to know as much as possible on whether their U.S. Senators and Representative are a sponsor or cosponsor of bills the NRLN supports or opposes. You are encouraged to use the Report Card to urge your Representative and Senators to …
