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: Grits for Breakfast

Prison guards take budget hits on pay, retirement, health insurance

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At BurkaBlog, R.G. Ratcliffe has a column about state employee health benefit cuts, where suggestions for savings include increasing deductibles up to $11,900 per year. Ratcliffe offers this specific example:For a prison guard with a take-home pay of $1,825.17 a month, the change would cost the guard an additional $186 a month to cover himself, his spouse and two children. Homer said that is before he has ever accessed the health care system. But Pitts pointed out that the health care plan for state employees is generous compared to what the state does for retired teachers or what private industry does for its employees. ?There are not many industries that pay all of the employees? coverage and half the family,? he explained.Prison guards would already get a pay cut in the House budget since a 7% pay hike authorized last session to improve employee retention would be rescinded...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 29, 2011 (boomark / email).