UA to Offer Domestic Partner Benefits
When University of Arizona employee Jennifer Hoefle learned last year that a change in state law would make her partner ineligible for health insurance benefits provided by the UA, worry took hold.
Hoefle, the program director of the UA's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Affairs, was just one of an estimated 149 University employees who faced losing coverage for their domestic partners as a result of a state law passed in September that redefined the term "dependent" to exclude domestic partners and their children. read more »
