Corinna Cole, the wife of a GE worker of five years at the Lynn plant and mother of an 8-year-old daughter, said after years of relying on GE health coverage, she was shocked to find out days after she went to the doctor for an X-ray and tests that those medical expenses wouldn’t be covered.
“GE taking health care away from workers’ families, just after announcing they are cutting jobs at the plant, is adding insult to injury,” said Cole. “Ripping away health coverage from our family in the middle of a pandemic should be unthinkable. We submitted our marriage certificate to prove my eligibility, but that wasn’t good enough for the company. We’re asking GE to do the right thing and fix this by restoring our health care and the health care of all the other workers’ families who have been impacted.”
In response to this, a GE Aviation spokesperson said that like many other large employers, GE conducted an independent audit to ensure that those who participate in the health plans are eligible to do so, but “no employees lost their coverage as a result of this audit.”
“We sent multiple communications to employees and union leadership, hosted meetings and conducted individual outreach over the course of a year to help employees verify dependents, with 97 percent approved for our program,” a GE Aviation spokesperson said. “We are not aware of anyone who submitted all required paperwork by the deadline whose dependents have been denied coverage.”
[source https://www.itemlive.com/2022/02/22/ge-cuts-family-health-coverage/]
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