Retiree Health VEBAs: A New Twist on an Old Paradigm: Implications for Retirees, Unions and Employers

Authors

Phyllis Borzi, George Washington University

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

3-2009

Keywords

Employer Sponsored Health Insurance; VEBA

Abstract

This issue brief provides an overview of stand-alone Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Association trusts, through which employers have been able to rid themselves of future obligations to pay retiree health benefits in exchange for making a significant payment to designed to approximate the projected cost of these benefits. The paper include three case studies, including the VEBAs at the Big Three automakers.

Comments

This publication (#7865) is available on the Kaiser Family Foundation's website at: http://kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/retiree-health-vebas-a-new-twist-on/.

Funder: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

APA Citation

Borzi, P. C. (2009). Retiree health VEBAs: A new twist on an old paradigm: Implications for retirees, unions and employers. Menlo Park, CA: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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