Alabama Educators’ Insurance Rates to Remain Steady

The board that oversees Alabama’s health insurance plan for education employees has voted to keep employees’ monthly premiums and co-pays the same for the next school year.

The Public Education Employees’ Health Insurance Board vote on Monday in Montgomery kept an agreement the insurance program’s managers made with the governor and legislative leaders in the recently completed legislative session.

That agreement called for the Legislature to provide an extra $77 million for health insurance in fiscal 2015 and for the insurance program’s board to keep rates the same for next year.

The Legislature chose to keep insurance costs steady rather than provide a cost-of-living increase for education employees.

The decision by the health insurance board affects nearly 82,000 education employees and nearly 123,000 spouses and children.

 

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