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Article: State may pick up the tab for Guard members' insurance: Bill to be introduced on Tuesday would cover life insurance for members
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- February 21, 2005
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
Members of the West Virginia National Guard would have their life
insurance premiums covered by the state under a bill to be introduced
in the Legislature Tuesday.
Sen. John Unger's bill would set aside an initial $1.2 million in
a Service Members' Life Insurance Reimbursement Fund so that no guard
members would forego taking out life insurance offered by the
military, as some do now.
"It's a small price to pay to ensure that all members have life
insurance," he said.
The monthly insurance premiums are $16.25 but some members,
especially those at low pay grades, decline it. If those members are
then killed in Iraq or elsewhere, their dependents are deprived of
benefits of ...