Brown and Portman introduce bill to extend health benefits for Delphi salaried workers
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, and Republican Rob Portman introduced a bill to extend the Health Coverage Tax Credit to help retired Delphi salaried retirees and United Steelworkers members.
This bill would extend the HCTC for five years, along with retroactively covering the workers since the HCTC lapsed in January 2014.
There are about 20,000 Delphi retirees, including 5,000 in Ohio with about 1,500 in the Mahoning Valley.
U.S. Reps. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, and Mike Turner of the Dayton area, R-10th, introduced a similar bill in the House.
The four members of Congress have attempted to get this benefit restored a number of times without success.
The HCTC helps trade-affected workers, select groups of retirees — like Delphi salaried retirees — and their families purchase private health coverage to replace the employer-sponsored coverage they lost.
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