Dear colleague,
We have received many calls and emails pointing out that there was a large increase in deductions for health insurance in your first paychecks of the new year.
Using the Horizon Calculator, our union staff were able to see that the University made a mistake: deductions for NJ Direct and NJ Direct 2019 were based on a percentage of the premium (State All Other selection), instead of a percentage of salary (State Union Negotiated), as should be the case for everyone represented by our Rutgers unions. Those of you in the OMNIA plan might also have been affected. If not corrected, this error would add up to thousands of dollars in overpayments toward health insurance annually.
We have contacted University Human Resources and asked them to fix this mistake immediately.
In solidarity,
Todd Wolfson, President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT
Dr. Catherine Monteleone, President, AAUP-BHSNJ
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