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TECH NEWS
Active staff and pensioners of the United Nations are taking initiatives for the introduction of long-term care benefits in the United Nations Van Breda (Overseas) health insurance plan. The UN Field Service Staff Union is planning to raise this matter at a meeting of the organ i z a t i o n ’s Staff-Management Coordinating Committee to be held in New York at the end of September 2002. On the pensioner side, the undersigned will be asking the Governing Board of AFICS-New York to bring the same request up in UN Headquarters’ Health and Life Insurance Committee.
A petition will be sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, asking for his support in having long-term care benefits introduced in this insurance. It describes the type of dependency for which long-term care benefits are being sought. Dependency means being unable to perform basic everyday tasks for oneself; it may occur at any age but it normally affects the elderly. The petition asks for long-term care benefits to cover assistance in the home, as well as in a clinic or hospital. We are anxious for the petition to be signed by a maximum number of interested UN retirees.
Former staff-members who are insured with this plan, or who have knowledge
of other former colleagues who are so insured, may request copies of the
petition to the Secretary- General by writing, e-mailing or telephoning
to one of us (instructions regarding the forwarding of the petition will
be given): Gualtiero Fulcheri, 79 rue de Brancas F-84210 Pernes-les-Fontaines
Tel. +33 490 616 688, e-mail: Gfulcheri@aol.com
Anders Tholle “La Crémaillère” Route de la Patinoire,
CH-1875 Morgins Tel. +41 24 477 35 51
e-mail: tholle@cytanet.com.cy