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2021 | THE YEAR IN REVIEW Additionally it provided for individuals who had been exposed to COVID and were excluded from the workplace the right to maintain their income. Collectively PMA paid $15.3M for these agreements. Tackling Healthcare Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Since 2013 the employers have continued intensified focus on addressing fraud, waste, and abuse of the healthcare plan. The third-party claims administrators have also continued their rigorous review of medical bills and identification of fraud and abuse. Through strong management and a clear strategy for mitigating fraud and abuse, the plan costs have stabilized despite a projected trend that showed welfare costs increasing to nearly $1.9 billion in the 2021 fiscal year. A total of 218 providers have been excluded from billing the plan and medical care costs are nearly 58 percent below what they would have been had they grown at the rate of healthcare inflation. Employers are committed to continuing to provide comprehensive healthcare benefits and ensuring that providers are accurately billing the plan for only covered services that have been provided in accordance with Plan terms. Going forward, we will continue to exclude providers, press investigations, and where appropriate, initiate litigation and recover losses. Other Healthcare Benefits In addition to health coverage, the ILWU-PMA Welfare Plan also provides the following benefits: • Dental benefit (100% for children and 80% for adults), including dental implants; • Vision benefit ($300 frame allowance every 24 months); • Alcoholism/Drug Recovery Program (paid at 100% for the first episode of substance use disorder treatment); • Subsequent Artificial Limbs and Eyes Benefit covering lost or damaged prostheses; • Life and AD&D insurance; • Hearing Aids; • Blood Sugar Monitors; and • Social Security Supplementation Benefit for Pensioners. $2000 $1800 $1600 $1400 $1200 $1000 $800 $600 $400 $200 $0 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 17/18 18/19 19/20 20/21 Indemnity Plan Indemnity Projected Trend Total Welfare Projected Trend HMO Plans All Other ILWU-PMA Actual vs. Projected Total Welfare Costs (Millions) A review of annual earnings, found on pg. 61, shows that full-time registered workers (those paid 2,000 hours or more) earned, on average in 2021, over $207,000 per year. For longshore registrants, the average was $194,350. For clerks, it was $217,651. And for foremen, it was $311,656. Unlike most workers, the wages earned by ILWU members are not solely determined by the basic longshore rate of $46.23 per hour. More than eighty percent of all work includes skill bonuses ranging from $2.40 to $5.80 per hour. Evening and nighttime work – which totals nearly 39 percent of all hours paid – is paid at rates of $61 to $83 per hour, not including overtime. Overtime work, including weekends and holidays, is paid at rates of $69 to $93 per hour and accounts for 36 percent of all hours paid. The effective average rate for all hours paid is nearly $63 per hour. Refer to pg. 62 for more information. How does $46.23 add up to $207,000 a year? 19 19 PACIFIC MARITIME ASSOCIATION

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