Hard Choices To Save SAG-AFTRA’s Troubled Health Plan; 3,500 Performers & 2,800 Dependents Projected To Lose Benefits Next Year Under Restructuring

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMore than 1,500 music venues across the U.S. will be illuminated in red light on Tuesday evening (Sept.

Curtis Pritchard has reunited with his ex Amy Hart, proving there's no hard feelings between them.The pair met on Love Island, where Amy fell head over heels for the 24 year old ballroom dancer before getting her heart broken after his head had been turned while she was in Casa Amor.The emotional ordeal forced her to leave the villa mid-season and seek therapy while Curtis went on to have an eight month relationship with Maura, 29, before ultimately calling it quits in March this year.

Hamilton charged to the 93rd pole position of his F1 career in qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix, recording two laps good enough for pole as he finished half a second clear of the field.Hamilton revealed after the session that he had found it difficult to regain focus after receiving news of Boseman's death."Every lap was just getting better and better.

David Robb Labor EditorTrustees of the DGA-Producer Pension and Health Plans have approved a third round of premium-free COBRA coverage – this time for participants whose earned active coverage terminated on June 30, 2020, extending the total period of premium-free COBRA coverage from three to six months, through December 31, 2020. The trustees approved similar rounds of premium-free COBRA coverage in April and June.

David Robb Labor EditorSAG-AFTRA Health Plan CEO Michael Estrada on Tuesday described the “perfect storm” of soaring health care costs, employer contributions to the plan that have failed to keep up with those costs, and the devastating impact of the coronavirus shutdown on those contributions that made a complete overhaul necessary to keep the plan from going broke by 2024.Changes to the plan, which include increased eligibility thresholds for many, and higher premiums for all, will go into

David Robb Labor EditorOpponents of changes coming to the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan said tonight they are considering legal action to prevent thousands of participants and their family members from losing their health coverage when the sweeping changes take effect on Jan. 1, 2021.“We have been talking to lawyers.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterHeather Jones feels “lost, tired and hopeless.” Work has been slow for her and her husband, both actors, since the coronavirus pandemic shut down film and television production five months ago. Last December, their 4-year-old son Harmon completed a series of surgeries, chemo and radiation for alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer, and is now undergoing physical therapy as well as routine MRIs, CT scans and bloodwork in the aftermath.

Gloria Estefan is opening up about the death of her “Glee” co-star, Naya Rivera. Rivera died in a boating accident in California in July.

Gloria Estefan is opening up about the death of her co-star, Naya Rivera. Rivera died in a boating accident in California in July.Estefan played Maribel Lopez, the mother of Naya's character, Santana Lopez, on the hit Fox musical comedy.“It was a brutal loss,” Estefan told ET’s Nischelle Turner while promoting her new album,.

The petition, hosted on Change.org, was nearing 11,600 signatures by 6 p.m. PT on Saturday.In a letter to members sent out on Wednesday, managers of the guild’s health plan said the changes are necessary because of projected deficits “of $141 million this year and $83 million in 2021,” and that “by 2024, the Health Plan is projected to run out of reserves.”The health plan currently covers those making more than $18,040 per year.

David Robb Labor EditorMore than 1,300 angry SAG-AFTRA members have signed a petition calling on the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan to overturn changes that will leave many members without health coverage during the coronavirus pandemic.The Plan says that the changes, which go into effect January 1, are needed to keep the Plan solvent in the face of staggering deficits.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsDisney+’s The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special will hit the streamer on November 17.Taking inspiration from the 1978 TV movie directed by Steve Binder,  The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special will see Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose and the beloved droids come together to celebrate Life Day.

A leading sexual health and HIV charity has produced a guide for people explaining how to have safe sex during the coronavirus pandemic.The Terrence Higgins Trust blog written by its medical director Dr Michael Brady describes sex as "a very important part of life".He detailed how as the pandemic continues "we all need to find ways to balance our need for sex and intimacy with the risks of the spread of Covid-19."Dr Brady warned of the increasing concerns about a second wave of coronavirus and