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Today's Poll!State employees health rates staying same
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Missouri state government employees got two pieces of good financial news this year.
Most saw raises in their paychecks last month for the first time in five years. And their insurance rates through the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan won’t be going up, too.
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LuckNLove 9 months, 2 weeks ago
It was quite a pay day… I almost got ten dollars more a week. 23 cent raise after fives, not bad, not bad at all. That is 4 cents a year... I'm be rich in no time.
JCLifer 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Watch the deductibles and co-pays and the ever-shrinking formulary...
Oh and the Max for the cafe plan is reduced too.
Such an improvement NOT!
Times are hard and getting harder.
bertd 9 months, 2 weeks ago
I am new to MO. We may relocate here because our granddaughter and great-granddaughter live here. I am shocked at how much higher the taxes are, compared to TN. What non-taxpayer funded businesses in central MO have better benefit pkg's than the state?
viktorkowski 9 months, 2 weeks ago
as I understand it, for new state hires the total benefit package doesn't look so great. For current employees the benefit package weighed against wages is bad enough that many are jumping ship. But you would be happy to know missouri doesn't have a 10% sales tax like tennessee does.
JCLifer 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Not yet, but Jeff City will soon be 10% sales tax with the fire department, law enforcement, community development, school, and TIF sales taxes. We will be at 8% when the FD tax passes.
viktorkowski 9 months, 2 weeks ago
It was a tongue and cheek response. Tennessee has the highest sales tax in the united states with a 7% rate combined with a 2.75% local sales tax making the average about 9.75%. food is taxed at 5.5% 2/3 of all tax dollars collected come from sales tax in Tennessee as they have no income tax. Not a bad state to live in if you have a Income like mine. But I wouldn't want to be on a fixed income and live there.
spelchek 9 months, 2 weeks ago
State employees health rates staying same, terrible
yonomo 9 months, 2 weeks ago
It's all reverse psychology. Come on people. You raise health rates before you give out pay increases. Health rates were raised last year for 2012. Then you come in and give a raise so everyone feels like they got something and forget about the rate increases. If you give out raises then raise rates you have an even more disgrunted workforce because they feel like their pay increases just got taken from them.
You could have bet the farm on that one.
EdH1952 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Exactly! Health insurance went up about 25% from 2011 to 2012 (gross) and we get a 2% pay raise (gross)... Doesn't take a mathematics major to figure our we are still on the losing end of the equation.
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