Budget Eliminates Partner Benefits

September 11, 2009

ASU Professor Jeff McMahon and his partner, Robert Flynt, are caught in health care limbo as the state decides when domestic partner benefits will end. (Photo Courtesy: J. McMahon)

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( Phoenix ) Gay rights advocates are asking a panel of state legislators to review Governor Brewer's recent decision to eliminate domestic partner benefits for state employees. Those cuts were included in the state budget package signed by the Governor last week. But House Representative Kyrsten Sinema says the language needs to be clarified. She points out that some people who signed up during the open enrollment period, which ended last Friday, could potentially keep their benefits until August 2010. That's when the next open enrollment cycle begins. KJZZ's Marcos Najera reports.