PCUSA News:Board of Pensions appoints special committee to consider same-gender benefits

Nine-member panel to carefully deliberate on GA’s recommendation
OCTOBER 22, 2010

FT. MYERS, FLA.

Thomas C. Paisley, chair of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)'s Board of Pensions (BOP) today announced the appointment of a special committee of the board to consider same-gender benefits under the BOP's healthcare and pension plans.

The nine-member special committee will be charged with developing the BOP's response to this summer's action by the 219^th General Assembly "to urge the Board of Pensions to extend benefits to same-gender domestic partners of plan members and to the children of those same-gender domestic partners."

excerpted from Presbyterian News Service

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