Actioin Alert - HCTC
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 7:58 am
Help Avaya Retirees Keep Access to Health Coverage Tax Credit HCTC
A number of Avaya salaried retirees have benefited from the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) because they lost their company healthcare coverage due to the Avaya bankruptcy. This refundable tax credit pays 72.5% of qualified health insurance premiums for eligible individuals between the ages of 55 and 64 (before Medicare eligibility) and their families.
Unfortunately, the HCTC is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2019, unless Congress passes legislation to extend it as it has done a number of times since HCTC was first enacted in 2002. There are bills in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R.1939, and in the U.S. Senate, S. 2414, which, if enacted, would extend HCTC for five years.
All NRLN members should receive an Action Alert email this morning (Monday, November 25) from NRLN President Bill Kadereit and Bob Martina, NRLN VP – Grassroots, encouraging you to email the NRLN’s sample letter to your Representative and Senators to urge them to pass legislation to extend HCTC for five more years.
I want to emphasize how important it is for you to respond to the Action Alert to help Avaya salaried retirees who have benefited from this program to have HCTC extended. Now is the time for Congress to focus on governing for the people.
Click here https://www.nrln.org/SE.html#/ if you have not already responded to the Action Alert. Click on the “Take Action” button below the HCTC Action Alert message; next enter your street address and zip code, and click “GO”. It will present the sample letters for you to email to your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative.
If you have a problem with this link, go to http://www.nrln.org and click on the red flashing icon “Respond to an Action Alert” near the top of the NRLN website home page.
I recommend that you add your personal comments to the letter on how important HCTC is to Avaya retirees and their families who have lost their healthcare benefits due to the Avaya bankruptcy.
The only thing an Avaya retiree has to do to sign up as a member of the NRLN Avaya Retirees Chapter is to go to http://www.nrln.org and click on the Join RED ICON at the top of the home page:
The click takes you to: https://www.nrln.org/congresslegs.html# ... 19CCE5EA9B
After a person enters his or her name and contact information, he or she sees this:
Scroll down the list to third from the bottom and select Avaya Retirees. (Unfortunately, The Soft Edge software program does not allow the list to be alphabetized for Avaya Retirees to be near the top of the list. The reason that Avaya Retirees is near the bottom it is one of the last Chapters to be formed. We list them as the association join the NRLN or Chapters are formed.)
Vern Larson, President, NRLN Avaya Retirees Chapter
NRLN Board Member, Vice President – Membership Development
any questions email me at avayaprez@nrln.org
A number of Avaya salaried retirees have benefited from the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) because they lost their company healthcare coverage due to the Avaya bankruptcy. This refundable tax credit pays 72.5% of qualified health insurance premiums for eligible individuals between the ages of 55 and 64 (before Medicare eligibility) and their families.
Unfortunately, the HCTC is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2019, unless Congress passes legislation to extend it as it has done a number of times since HCTC was first enacted in 2002. There are bills in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R.1939, and in the U.S. Senate, S. 2414, which, if enacted, would extend HCTC for five years.
All NRLN members should receive an Action Alert email this morning (Monday, November 25) from NRLN President Bill Kadereit and Bob Martina, NRLN VP – Grassroots, encouraging you to email the NRLN’s sample letter to your Representative and Senators to urge them to pass legislation to extend HCTC for five more years.
I want to emphasize how important it is for you to respond to the Action Alert to help Avaya salaried retirees who have benefited from this program to have HCTC extended. Now is the time for Congress to focus on governing for the people.
Click here https://www.nrln.org/SE.html#/ if you have not already responded to the Action Alert. Click on the “Take Action” button below the HCTC Action Alert message; next enter your street address and zip code, and click “GO”. It will present the sample letters for you to email to your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative.
If you have a problem with this link, go to http://www.nrln.org and click on the red flashing icon “Respond to an Action Alert” near the top of the NRLN website home page.
I recommend that you add your personal comments to the letter on how important HCTC is to Avaya retirees and their families who have lost their healthcare benefits due to the Avaya bankruptcy.
The only thing an Avaya retiree has to do to sign up as a member of the NRLN Avaya Retirees Chapter is to go to http://www.nrln.org and click on the Join RED ICON at the top of the home page:
The click takes you to: https://www.nrln.org/congresslegs.html# ... 19CCE5EA9B
After a person enters his or her name and contact information, he or she sees this:
Scroll down the list to third from the bottom and select Avaya Retirees. (Unfortunately, The Soft Edge software program does not allow the list to be alphabetized for Avaya Retirees to be near the top of the list. The reason that Avaya Retirees is near the bottom it is one of the last Chapters to be formed. We list them as the association join the NRLN or Chapters are formed.)
Vern Larson, President, NRLN Avaya Retirees Chapter
NRLN Board Member, Vice President – Membership Development
any questions email me at avayaprez@nrln.org