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40 ILCS 5/9-239

(40 ILCS 5/9-239) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 9-239)

Sec. 9-239.

Group Health Benefit.

(a) For the purposes of this Section, "annuitant" means a person
receiving an age and service annuity, a prior service annuity, a widow's
annuity, a widow's prior service annuity, a minimum annuity, or a child's
annuity on or after January 1, 1990, under Article 9 or 10 by reason of
previous employment by Cook County or the Forest Preserve District of Cook
County (hereinafter, in this Section, "the County").

(b) Beginning December 1, 1991, the Fund may pay, on behalf of each of
the Fund's annuitants who chooses to participate in any of the county's
health care plans, all or any portion of the total health care
premium (including coverage for other family members) due from each such
annuitant.

(c) The difference between the required monthly premiums for such
coverage and the amount paid by the Fund may be deducted from the
annuitant's annuity if the annuitant so elects; otherwise such coverage
shall terminate and the obligation of the Fund shall also terminate.

(d) Amounts contributed by the county as authorized under Section 9-182
for the benefits set forth in this Section shall be credited to the reserve
for group hospital care and all such premiums shall be charged to it.

(e) The group coverage plan and benefits described in this Section are
not and shall not be construed to be pension or retirement benefits for
purposes of Section 5 of Article XIII of the Illinois Constitution of 1970.

(Source: P.A. 86-1025; 87-794.)