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Show Civilian blue collar employees here grade will receive Weag received an additional pay increase effective Oct. 1, as a result of recent legislation, personnel officials have announced. Public Law 96-7-4 placed a ceiling of 7.02 percent on the amount of pay increases for federal wage system employees in fiscal year 1980. The former ceiling was 5.5 percent. additional poy Vol. 33 No. 43 To change or not to change plans? To change from high option to low option? What are the differences in benefits. . . in costs? : These are questions civilian employees should begin asking themselves during the federal employees health benefits open season. The open season will begin Nov. 12 and continue through Dec. 7 for all civilian and student employees' except temporaries ' . ' .. - ' During this period, eligible employees who are not members of one of the health benefit plans offered may enroll. Also, employees already enrolled in a plan may change from one plan or Option to another or from "self only" to "family" coverage. To make changes, employees must have the following information: Carrier control number of current plan; social security number; birthdates of family members (if applicable). No changes can be allowed without that information, say personnel officials. Employees not knowing their carrier control number should contact Civilian Personnel Division, 201 file section, Ext. 7597, before making an open season change. New brochures will receive the new open HIGH SELF GOVERNMENT-WID- E pay rate which was fiscal restricted in year 1979 to 5.5 percent is to the rate which it would adjusted upward, have been had there been no pay cap. The new pay rates for specific grades will not be known until new wage schedules are As a result, each . season brochures as soon as they arrive. They will be distributed by the Base Publications Branch and will include the following: Open Season Instruction Pamphlet Federal Employees Health " Benefits Rates Brochures for the two government-wid- e plans, Indemnity Benefit (Aetna) and Service Benefit (Blue Cross - Blue Shield) Brochures on the comprehensive plan, Family Health Program. Members of unions who sponsor health Bi-wee- : plans will receive that organization's to question various I TO Vll OCT j - IJ HI Zfstf . -- representatives concerning the structure and benefits of their plans. . Schedules of times and locations for these visits and information concerning major benefit changes will be published in forthcoming issues of the Hill Top Times. New premium rates Following are the new rates for plans available in this area. HIGH FAMILY LOW SELF LOW FAMILY M? DD TJG GODIaa) Pentagon, four bases wi soon pay to park 11 2.06 5.97 ; 8.23 12.56 4.02 20.87 2.75 6.52 The Pentagon; Boiling AFB, D.C.; Los Angeles AFS, Calif.; Air Force Plant No. 29, Lynn, Mass. ; and Air Force Plant No. 83, Albuquerque, N.M., are on a list of federal facilities slated for a monthly parking fee beginning Nov. 1. The fees will be charged as part of the program to encourage carpooling, van pooling and the use of mass transit in commuting. pay-to-pa- EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION PLANS: (These, plans are contingent upon acceptance of . , membership and payment of union dues if required.) 7.37 19.23 Alliance Health Benefit Plan 13.41 6.31 AFGE Health Benefit Plan 21.39 American Postal Workers Union Plan 9.63 . Gov't. Employees Hospital Association Benefit Plan Mail Handlers Benefit Plan N ALC Health Benefit Plan Postmasters Benefit Plan. OUR brochure directly from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)- Brochures for all plans will" also be available in the Civilian Personnel Office, but must be requested by the employee. Employees will again have the opportunity 26.87 12.31 1979 QQO ft - PLANS: Service Benefit Plan Shield) (Blue Cross-Blu- e Indemnity Benefit Plan (Aetna) COMPREHENSIVE PLANS: Family Health Program (Salt Lake & Ogden) October 26, nfr00 w ".7"" Employees published by the Department of Defense Wage Fixing Authority. These will be published in the Hill Top Times when they are received. Pay increases will be processed retroactively to Oct. 1. The increases will appear in pay checks as soon as possible after the new schedules are received. fiscal year 1979. OGDEN, UTAH H3al DtflrD ofclnlG aides.- - which applied to increases received during 4.30 9.06 3.62 7.91 9.98 21.35 2.66 7.48 15.35 30.28 1.45 3.53 The Hill Top Times is an unouicial newspaper published every Friday in the interest of personnel at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, oi Air Force Logistics Command. It is published by MorMedia Sales, Inc.. 1150 West Riverdale Road. Ogden, Utah 84403, a private lirm in no way connected with the Department of the Air Force. Opinions expressed by publisher and writers rk People, plans, bases in Readiness exercise More than 4,600 Air Force people and 100 aircraft from more than 20 Air Force IT V bases are taking part in the U.S. Readiness Command exercise Bold Eagle '80, which began Oct. 9 and will continue through Nov. 7. Aid society introduces new student loan plan A new student loan program for members of the Air Force family will be introduced Nov. 1, according to the Air Force Aid Society. The Gen. George S. Brown Senior Student Loan Program will Air Force be available to active-dutof the Air members certain members, National Guard and the Air Force Reserve, retired members, and spouses or unremarried widows. y are their own and are not to be considered an official expression by the Department of the Air Force. The appearance of advertisements, including supplements and inserts, in this publication does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Air Force of products or services advertised. , |