News10NBC Investigates: Corrections officer with FMLA has health insurance canceled amid strike, leaving wife without chemo treatment

News10NBC Investigates: Prison guard insurance cancellation

ATTICA, N.Y. – The state of New York has followed through on its threat to cancel the health insurance of striking corrections officers who refuse to go back to work. As of Wednesday, it cancelled insurance for 5,300 corrections officers and their dependents. But it appears, the state has also dropped some officers who were nowhere near the picket line.

Rachel’s (last name withheld) husband is a corrections officer at Attica Correctional Facility in Wyoming County. He has been out on family and medical leave (FMLA) to care for her and their kids as she fights a rare and terminal illness. “I get IV infusion therapy in the home a couple of days a month, I also have to get chemo, I’m also on several different daily medications,” she tells News10NBC…

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