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A. The employee is not eligible for benefits under 10.1.7; and, The employee is not eligible for similar benefits through a spouse's health plan. Whenever the above eligibility criteria are met, the City will provide medical benefits at the same benefit tier (single, two-party, family) which the employee would have been receiving if he/she had continued as an active employee. 10.2 Savings Clause If, pursuant to any federal or state law which may become effective subsequent to the effective date of this MOU, 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-surgical, dental care and major medical programs existing at this time 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 any such month in the form of contributions or taxes to support said federal or state health plan. If, as a result of such a 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 plans 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 major medical plans. The City need only expend for this purpose the actual amount required to achieve parity between the benefits agreed to be provided under the major medical plans and 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. If the benefits provided under the federal or state act exceed the benefits provided hereunder in each category of coverage, the City shall be under no further obligation to make any contributions. The City intends to evaluate the hospital-medical, life insurance, and dental plans which are currently available to employees. In the event that it may be possible to provide hospital-medical, life insurance and dental coverage as nearly comparable as possible to the benefits in effect on November 1, 1980, without additional cost to the City or the employees, the City may substitute new insurance carders. The Association will be given an opportunity to review the coverage afforded under such substitute plans before they are implemented. 23