We are pleased to announce that, effective January 1, 2024, Welfare & Pension Administration Service, Inc. (WPAS) will be the Middletown Works Hourly and Salaried Union Retirees Health Care Fund’s (the Plan) third-party administrator (TPA).
As the Plan’s new TPA, WPAS will be responsible for the operations of the Fund Administrative Office at 1201 Crawford St., Middletown, OH 45044, and WPAS has hired all of the employees who currently work at the Fund Administrative Office. But there’s much more to the proper administration of the Plan than what we see at the Fund Administrative Office. Thus, WPAS also maintains offices in Mercer Island, Washington where it will provide the Plan with extensive claims administration services, financial administrative services, and numerous other administrative services necessary for the proper operation of your Plan.
The Middletown Works Hourly and Salaried Union Retirees Health Care Fund (Middletown Works Retirees Fund or Plan, for short) provides medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits to eligible members.
You are eligible for coverage as a retired employee if you:
- Worked for AK Steel or one of its predecessors at the Middletown Works (and related facilities covered by the collective bargaining agreement for the Middletown Works) under a collective bargaining agreement covering hourly or salaried employees, negotiated between AK Steel or one of its predecessors (including Armco, Inc., Armco Steel Corporation, and Armco Steel Company, L.P.) and AEIF or the Union;
- Retired from AK Steel between January 1, 1957 and May 31, 2007 if you were an hourly employee or retired between January 1, 1984 and May 31, 2007 if you were a salaried employee; and
- Were eligible to participate in the (1) AK Steel Hourly Retiree Hospital and Medical Benefits Plan or a predecessor plan, or the (2) AK Steel Corporation Hospital and Medical Benefits Plan (for AEIF Salaried Represented Pensioners, Surviving Spouse Benefit Recipients and Eligible Dependents) or a predecessor plan, at the time you retired and continued to be eligible to participate in one of these plans as of February 29, 2008.