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SECTION 1557 OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT REQUIRED NOTICE TO PARTICIPANTS

This notice is to inform you that New England Health Care Employees Welfare Fund (“The Fund”) complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics) in covered health programs.

The Fund does not exclude people or treat them less favorably because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.

The Fund provides people with disabilities reasonable modification and free appropriate services to communicate effectively with us. The customer service line specifically provides free language assistance services to people whose primary language is not English.
If written information is required in other languages or any other reasonable and necessary modification is requested to effectively communicate with the Fund office, the participant can contact Melissa Greaves by calling 860-549-8896.

If you believe that The Fund has failed to provide these services or discriminated in another way on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex, you can file a grievance with Melissa .

The grievance can be mailed to:

New England Health Care Employees Welfare Fund
77 Huyshope Avenue, 2nd Floor
Hartford, CT. 06106
Attention Melissa Greaves, Civil Rights Coordinator.

You can also fax it to 860-947-8080 or email it to claims@1199nefunds.org.

You can also file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, electronically through the Office for Civil Rights Complaint Portal, available at https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/portal/lobby.jsf or by phone at 1-800-368-1019, 800-537-7697(TDD) or by mail at:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, SW
Room 509F, HHH Building
Washington, D.C. 202011

Complaint forms are available at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/office/file/index.html.

If you have any questions, please call the Fund Office Local at 860-728-1100 or Toll Free at 1-800-227-4744.

Silvana Stankus
Executive Director
New England Health Care Employees Welfare Fund