Health & Welfare

Therapy Coverage Changes

The Board of Trustees is announcing benefit improvements in outpatient Speech, Occupational, and Physical therapies for you and your eligible dependent(s). You can view the detailed changes in these document links: Active 1, 2 and Retiree.

Non-Network Expenses are Eligible for HRA Reimbursement

Effective for eligible claims incurred on or after January 1, 2024, the Plan allows full reimbursement from a Participant’s Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) for deductibles and copayments for services received from non-network providers. Click here to learn more.


Pension

Annual Funding Notice & Green Zone Notice

The Pension Protection Act of 2006 [PPA] added requirements for measuring the financial health of multiemployer pension plans such as ours. PPA requires the Laborers' Pension Fund’s ("Fund"/"Plan") actuary to determine and certify the Fund’s financial status annually. If the Plan’s status is critical (“Red Zone”) or endangered (“Yellow Zone”), the Trustees must notify all plan participants, beneficiaries, participating unions and contributing employers in writing Read more...

Annual Statement Required from Pension Recipients

In January, you will receive an Annual Statement that needs to be completed and sent back to the Fund Office by March 1, 2026. This form is sent every year to verify you received all of your pension checks from the prior year, to verify your mailing address, to update your file with any new information (including your email address), and to verify that you are not working in any employment prohibited by the Plan rules. A Summary About the Kinds of Work Not Allowed is also sent every year and is included with this mailing.

Instructions for completing the Annual Statement follow:

  • Section A: must be completed.
  • Section B: if you checked ‘AGREE’ for all 3 statements in Section A, do not complete.
    If you did not ‘AGREE’ with any of 3 statements in Section A, then complete only the portion(s) of Section B related to the Section A statement(s) you did not ‘AGREE’ with.
  • Section C: you must sign this form, and your signature must be notarized by a Notary Public. The Fund Office has a notary on staff if you would like to come in to complete the form. Valid photo identification is required. Read more...