SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris Urges Members To Tell Congress To Pass COBRA Healthcare Subsidy
deadline.comDavid Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris is asking her members to urge Congress to expand the federal COBRA healthcare subsidy for workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic and are in danger of losing their health coverage.“It is time that Congress pass the next federal relief package to protect the American worker from the economic consequences of the COVID-19 public health crisis,” she said tonight in a message to her members. “Performers are uniquely suffering from prolonged unemployment and loss of income and some will need federal assistance to keep their healthcare coverage.” SAG-AFTRA members, she said, rely on the partial COBRA healthcare subsidy to maintain coverage under the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan if they.
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