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Although you have the option of having the Hampden County\u00a0 Regional Retirement System withhold Health, Life and Dental Insurance deductions from your benefit check, you are actually covered under your former employer’s health plan.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We act only as a pass-through for withholding premiums as a convenience to you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>If you choose to have your insurance premiums withheld from your benefit check, deductions will be taken and forwarded as directed by your former employer.<\/p>\n Enrollment, changes, direct payment of premiums or any questions about your Health and Life Insurance plan or premium amounts should be directed through your employer as listed in the table below.\u00a0For those retired from the former\u00a0<\/span>Hampden\u00a0<\/span>County, your insurance is through the State Group Insurance program.\u00a0Your changes or questions should be directed to Group Insurance Commission at (617) 727-2310 ext. 806 for health and ext. 804 for life insurance.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Retiree Health and Life InsuranceAlthough you have the option of having the Hampden County\u00a0 Regional Retirement System withhold Health, Life and Dental Insurance deductions from your benefit check, you are actually covered under your former employer’s health plan.\u00a0\u00a0We act only as a pass-through for withholding premiums as a convenience to you.\u00a0\u00a0If you choose to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":259,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-264","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretty-violet-bear.209-59-156-6.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretty-violet-bear.209-59-156-6.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretty-violet-bear.209-59-156-6.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretty-violet-bear.209-59-156-6.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretty-violet-bear.209-59-156-6.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pretty-violet-bear.209-59-156-6.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/pretty-violet-bear.209-59-156-6.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/264\/revisions\/562"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pretty-violet-bear.209-59-156-6.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pretty-violet-bear.209-59-156-6.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}