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For Retiree Health Tier 2 employees who separate employment via a service retirement during the term of this MOU, this benefit shall continue until the retiree becomes eligible for Medicare. Once the retiree becomes eligible for Medicare, the City's stipend shall not exceed the single party cost of the "Kaiser Permanente SR Advantage Plan." Should that plan be abolished, the City's stipend will not exceed the single party cost of the next most comparable plan. The City will pay the PEMHCA minimum employer contribution to CalPERS and reimburse the retiree for the remaining difference in premium amount. Dental Insurance - The City shall continue to provide to eligible employees and dependents, including domestic partners, dental insurance. Coverage to be as follows: $2,100 annual cap for basic coverage and $2,500 lifetime cap for orthodonture effective October 1, 2001. The City will pay ninety percent (90%) of the dental insurance premium for eligible employees and dependents. Vision Care - The City shall continue to contract with Vision Service Plan (VSP) or a comparable vision care provider to provide vision care benefits for employees and their dependents including domestic partners. The Vision Service Plan B provides for an exam every twelve (12) months, lenses every twelve (12) months if needed, and frames every twenty-four (24) months if needed. There will be no deductible for employees, but a twenty dollar ($20.00) per person deductible will apply to dependents each time benefits are available and will be paid by the employee. The City will pay ninety percent (90%) of the vision insurance premium for eligible employees and dependents. Savings Clause — If, pursuant to any federal or state law which may become effective subsequent to the effective date of this policy, the City is required to pay contributions or taxes for hospital -medical -surgical, dental care, prescription drug or other health benefits to be provided its employees under such federal or state act, the City's obligation to furnish the same benefits under the hospital -medical programs shall be suspended and the contributions agreed to be paid monthly hereunder by the City shall be reduced each month by the amounts which the city is required to expend during such month in the form of contributions or taxed to support said federal or state health plan. If, as a result of such law, the level of benefits provided by such law for any group of employees, or their dependents, is lower in certain categories of services than that provided under the existing major plan, the City shall, to the extent practical, provide a plan of benefits supplementary to the federal or state benefits so as to make benefits in each category of coverage as nearly comparable as possible to the benefits provided under the existing major plan. The City need only expend for this purpose the actual amount required to achieve parity between the benefits provided under any federal or state plan as supplemented in the manner hereinabove described. In no event shall the City be required to expend for such purposes an amount which when added to the contributions or taxes required of the City under the federal or state act, shall exceed the amounts paid at the time such legislation becomes effective. 12