{"id":28135,"date":"2020-02-03T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=28135"},"modified":"2020-02-03T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T16:48:22","slug":"h-r-2382-usps-fairness-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/02\/03\/h-r-2382-usps-fairness-act\/","title":{"rendered":"H.R. 2382, USPS Fairness Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"summary\">\n<header class=\"head-section\" role=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"content-panel\">\n<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"content-panel\" class=\"content\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<article>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/publication\/56093\">CBO 1\/31\/20<\/a>: Under current law, the Postal Service (USPS) is required to fully prefund retiree health benefits for its employees by making payments into the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund in the Treasury. In 2019, the required payment was about $4.6 billion. USPS has not made any of those payments since 2010 and CBO does not expect the Postal Service to make them in any year over the 2020-2030 period. H.R. 2382 would repeal the requirement to make those payments. Because the bill would not affect any USPS payments or receipts nor change any underlying eligibility for retiree health care benefits, CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 2382 would have no effect on the federal budget.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/system\/files\/2020-01\/hr2382.pdf\">View Document<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"related-publications\">\n<header class=\"head-section\" role=\"button\">\n<h2>Legislative Information<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"view view-legislative-info-from-congress-gov view-id-legislative_info_from_congress_gov view-display-id-block_1 js-view-dom-id-3d77bb6f1c29b3d6e68cc3c3eb38e52e2a4a1c6eedda8db13099dbee16cc606b\">\n<div class=\"view-content\">\n<div class=\"item-list\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"views-field views-field-nothing\"><span class=\"field-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-bill\/2382\">Available From Congress.gov<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28136\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Congressional-Budget-Office2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Congressional-Budget-Office2.jpg 478w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Congressional-Budget-Office2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Congressional-Budget-Office2-122x74.jpg 122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary CBO 1\/31\/20: Under current law, the Postal Service (USPS) is required to fully prefund retiree health benefits for its employees by making payments into the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund in the Treasury. In 2019, the required payment was about $4.6 billion. USPS has not made any of those payments since 2010 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28137,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28135\/revisions\/28137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}