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Age Discrimination in Employment Act; Retiree Health Benefits]]></title>
  <link>http://thefederalregister.com/d.p/2007-12-26-E7-24867</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is publishing this 
final rule so that employers may create, adopt, and maintain a wide 
range of retiree health plan designs, such as Medicare bridge plans and 
Medicare wraparound plans, without violating the Age Discrimination in 
Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA). To address concerns that the ADEA may be 
construed to create an incentive for employers to eliminate or reduce 
retiree health benefits, EEOC is creating a narrow exemption from the 
prohibitions of the ADEA for the practice of coordinating employer
sponsored retiree health benefits with eligibility for Medicare or a 
comparable State health benefits program.\1\ The rule does not 
otherwise affect an employer's ability to offer health or other  employment benefits to retirees, consistent with the law.<br/>
    \1\ The EEOC recognizes that eligibility for Medicare and 
comparable state health benefits is not necessarily limited to 
retirees. As explained below, this rule only concerns application of 
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