Town employees receive life time health after 10 years

[Albie]

Channel 2 reported anyone working in the Town of Cheektowaga 10 years receives paid health benefits for family for life,retirees get buy backs for days averaging $40-$60,000,along with health and pension.It's just a matter of time when our taxes on our property's will make them unmarketable.

[atotaltotalfan2001]

Channel 2 reported anyone working in the Town of Cheektowaga 10 years receives paid health benefits for family for life,retirees get buy backs for days averaging $40-$60,000,along with health and pension.It's just a matter of time when our taxes on our property's will make them unmarketable.

What? And here were we praising them for joining a single health care provider!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sounds like, no matter what the initial savings of that move were, the cost will haunt cheektowaga taxpayers for decades.

[Smiley]

What? And here were we praising them for joining a single health care provider!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sounds like, no matter what the initial savings of that move were, the cost will haunt cheektowaga taxpayers for decades.

Fan,
Here you thought Amherst was bad! What people don't realize is that the contract probably already allowed current employees to sell back so many sick days on the books. So that might not be new. For negotiations, It is baby steps, but never the less they are being taken in the right direction

[4248]

Channel 2 reported anyone working in the Town of Cheektowaga 10 years receives paid health benefits for family for life,retirees get buy backs for days averaging $40-$60,000,along with health and pension.It's just a matter of time when our taxes on our property's will make them unmarketable.

Even part-time Town Board members, after only "FIVE YEARS SERVICE" receive credits that can be used to-wards future New York State Pensions ( taxpayer funded) and lifetime benefits.