Who pays for my Health and Welfare Plan?
The cost of your benefits are completely funded by the Company. Associates are required to make co-pays and pay certain percentages of each service they use. Q: Who pays for my pension? A: Your pension benefits are funded by payments made by the Company. Q: What are Taft-Hartley funds? A: Taft-Hartley funds are the health care and pension benefits plans under which many of our unionized associates are covered. The funds are “trusted,” which means they are managed by union-appointed and company-appointed trustees. All contributions (100%) to the funds are currently made by Kroger to pay for the benefits of associates covered under the plans. Q: What are Taft-Hartley pension funds? A: Taft-Hartley pension funds provide retirement benefits to retirees and their eligible dependents. Each fund is a trust that consists of: (1) contributions employers make according to their collective bargaining agreements, and (2) the gains or losses from investment of those contributions by the fund’s trus
