Stop HSS From Taking Away Your United Healthcare.
Tell Us Your Story.
HSS voted last month to switch your excellent retiree healthcare from United Healthcare to an inferior plan on Blue Shield CA starting in January 2025. They are telling us nothing will change. But that’s not what we’re hearing. Tell us your story so we can share it (no names, if you prefer) with our elected officials. Don’t balance the city budget on retirees backs!
Our Mission at Protect Our Benefits
Protect Our Benefits (POB) is dedicated to protecting and enhancing the health and pension benefits of the nearly 41,000 San Francisco City & County retirees and surviving spouses in the San Francisco Health Service System (HSS) and the San Francisco Employees Retirement System (SFERS). We work to strengthen alliances with groups that already share POB’s objectives and to establish new relationships with other groups and individuals who have similar objectives. We are committed to taking the legal and political actions necessary to achieve our goals. Our 7,000 supporters and contributors have one common goal: to protect and enhance the health and retirement benefits we have earned during out years of dedicated service.
Meet Our Founder
Nancy Gin
Nancy Gin, pioneering activist, San Francisco city worker, and one of the founders of Protect Our Benefits, cared passionately about her fellow workers. She wanted city retirees to live a dignified retirement. Honor Nancy’s legacy and all retirees by supporting POB’s ongoing efforts to protect our earned benefits.
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Recent News
SF Examiner: Mayoral Candidate Mark Farrell Blasts London Breed for Throwing Seniors Under the Healthcare Bus
From sfexaminer.com - 07/24/24: Mark Farrell at the mayoral debate at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. [...]
Save Your Healthcare! We Need Your Phone Calls to Supervisors Today!
Supervisors and the mayor are trying to balance budget on backs of our most dedicated retirees who have dedicated their lives to this city. [...]
News Media Picks Up On Unfairness of Our Fight For Decent Retiree Healthcare
From: sfstandard.com. HEALTHCARE HAVOC: Health insurance policies don’t usually make for exciting news. But that’s not the case this month in San Francisco. A nonprofit [...]
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If you are a retiree or beneficiary of the City and County of San Francisco and would like to participate with Protect Our Benefits, please e-mail us at Participate@protectourbenefits.org. Be sure to let us know where you reside and what you are interested in doing. Since POB is an all-volunteer group, please allow a few days for us to respond.