{"id":1228,"date":"2012-09-21T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/advocacy\/inside208\/post\/New-PA-152-Hard-Cap-Amounts-Released-by-Treasury.aspx"},"modified":"2012-09-21T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T11:16:00","slug":"new-pa-152-hard-cap-amounts-released-by-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2012\/09\/21\/new-pa-152-hard-cap-amounts-released-by-treasury\/","title":{"rendered":"New PA 152 Hard Cap Amounts Released by Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Michigan Department of Treasury released the <\/span>new PA 152 (Public Employer Contributions to Medical Benefit Plans) hard cap amounts<\/span><\/a>  <\/span>on September 18th<\/sup>, 2012. These caps will apply to medical benefit plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2013.  This represents an increase of 3.5%.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Click here for the document – <\/span><\/span>http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/documents\/treasury\/CY2013PA152MedicalBenefitLimits9-18-12_398502_7.pdf<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Samantha Harkins is the Director of State Affairs for the League and handles municipal finance and labor issues.  <\/span>She can be reached at 517-908-0306 or email at <\/em><\/span>sharkins@mml.org<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Michigan Department of Treasury released the new PA 152 (Public Employer Contributions to Medical Benefit Plans) hard cap amounts  on September 18th, 2012. These caps will apply to medical benefit plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2013.  This represents an increase of 3.5%. Click here for the document – http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/documents\/treasury\/CY2013PA152MedicalBenefitLimits9-18-12_398502_7.pdf  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":456,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-link-articles","category-municipal-finance","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew PA 152 Hard Cap Amounts Released by Treasury - Inside 208<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2012\/09\/21\/new-pa-152-hard-cap-amounts-released-by-treasury\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New PA 152 Hard Cap Amounts Released by Treasury - Inside 208\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Michigan Department of Treasury released the new PA 152 (Public Employer Contributions to Medical Benefit Plans) hard cap amounts  on September 18th, 2012. 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