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The Department of Health and Human Services released its latest list of companies and organizations that received a one-year waiver of the Affordable Care Act’s ban on annual dollar limits on benefits. A total of 733 waivers have been granted for 2011, of which at least 144 went to unions and union trusts, while an additional 18 went to school districts.

Waivers were granted to at least 17 locals and affiliates of the Teamsters, 11 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), 28 of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), 7 of the SEIU, and one to the United Federation of Teachers Welfare Fund.

Of the 18 school districts that received waivers, 16 were in New York and the other two in Minnesota. They were:

McGregor Schools ISD #4 (MN)
Mounds View Public Schools (MN)
Amherst Central School District (NY)
Avon Central School District (NY)
Canandaigua City Schools (NY)
Fairport Central School District (NY)
Fridley Public Schools Health Savings Plan (MN)
Grand Island Central School District (NY)
Hammondsport Central School District (NY)
Naples Central School District (NY – 2 waivers)
Newark Central School District (NY)
Niagara-Wheatfield CSD Self Funded (NY)
Panama Central School District (NY)
Rush-Henrietta Central School District HRA (NY)
Sherman Central School District (NY)
Silver Creek Central School District (NY)
Sodus Central School District (NY)
Williamson Central School District (NY)

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