The continuing saga of the health insurance

[judecorp]

So the HR lady realized that they had made a mistake with the $89 for Jen's insurance and dropped it down to $40something (the difference between the $125 family plan and the $80something employee plus child plan) post-tax. And she made sure I knew about the Queer Tax, which I did. (By the way, the Queer Tax in this case amounts to an extra $117 per paycheck that is added to my taxable income, because that's how much my job pays to insure a dirty, dirty queer.)

The HR lady made a point to let me know that this whole "having to put the same-sex spouse post-tax" was such a pain and made things so /difficult/ and "blah blah, if the rest of the country, blah blah, the IRS says we have to..." and after rolling my eyes over the phone about 60 times I finally managed to say, "Yeah, you should see my taxes." I'm really sorry my unfair tax penalty is difficult for YOU. ;)

But in the continuing saga of the health insurance, today our prescription cards came. With my name and Punk's name on them. ARGH!

I guess I'll be calling HR /again/!! Annoying.

Comments

[bookgrrrl.livejournal.com]

What a crock of shit.

[redwink.livejournal.com]

This sucks.

[sassywoman.livejournal.com]

I'm seriously infuriated for you. I'm so sick of the crap you and others have to go through because of the stupidity and prejudice of others. *hugs*

[geniusorafool.livejournal.com]

On a not-queer-specific note, have you ever noticed that HR people generally have the worst people skills of any department within an organization?

Ironic.

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that as well.

[heartspunmom.livejournal.com]

Michael and I registered as domestic partners long before we got married, and we had to pay the same stupid tax. His benefits came out of pre-tax, mine came out of after-tax income. A total crock of shit!

[sudrin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sheesh.. from the sounds of it every state should just legalize gay marriage secure in the knowledge that they can just terrorize "teh gayz" with annoying bureaucracy later.