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Health Insurance For Retired Participants

The City of Chicago collects 1.45% of annual salary for a participant’s coverage in Medicare for all employees hired after April 1, 1986.

The Firemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund serves as a conduit to assist in enrolling eligible members in the City’s employer sponsored health care plans and the Aetna healthcare plan sponsored by Local 2. Both retiree healthcare plan options currently available have been approved by the Fund and the Fund has an agreement with those plans to enable the Fund to collect and forward authorized payment of premiums from your benefit check to the selected healthcare plan and to ensure that eligible participants receive the statutory subsidy required under the Illinois Pension Code. For questions about the specific healthcare plans, please use the following contact information: (1) for the City’s BCBS plan call 1-877-566-8520 if you are over 65 years of age; if you are under 65 years of age, please call 1-800-292-6398; or (2) for Local’s 2 Aetna Plan, please contact Labor First through its website at https://laborfirst.com/fire2/.


Contact Numbers:
Department of Finance - Benefits Management Division: (877) 299-5111
Blue Advantage HMO (Medical): (800) 730-8504
EyeMed Vision (Blue Advantage HMO): (866) 273-0817
Unicare Performance HMO (Medical): (312) 234-8855
UniView Vision (Unicare Performance HMO): (888) 884-8428
Blue Cross and Blue Shield (PPO and Blue Edge HCA): (800) 772-6895
Davis Vision (PPO and BlueEdge HCA): (800) 999-5431
Encompass (PPO and BlueEdge HCA Medical Advisor): (800) 373-3727
Caremark Prescription Drugs (PPO and BlueEdge HCA): (866) 748-0028
CompBenefits Dental PPO: (800) 837-2341
BlueCare Dental HMO: (800) 323-7201
PayFlex (2007 FSA Services): (800) 284-4885
Ceridian (2006 FSA Services): (877) 799-8820
Nationwide Retirement Solutions (Deferred Compensation): (312) 443-1975
Metropolitan Life (Universal Life Insurance): (800) 634-5007
Prudential (Term Life Insurance): (800) 778-3827
Standard Insurance (Long Term Disability: (800) 368-1135