AFSCME NJ Statement On AON Report

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 20, 2025

AFSCME New Jersey Statement on Plan Design Committee Proposal Ratings

TRENTON, NJ – Today, AON, the actuary contracted by the State of New Jersey to service the State Health Benefits Plan, issued its scoring of the Plan Design Committee’s proposals. These recommendations will have a direct impact on the cost of health care for nearly 400,000 public workers, retirees, and their families.

Steve Tully, Executive Director of AFSCME New Jersey Council 63, issued the following statement: 

“What a surprise! The report from AON, the State’s actuary whose projections have been wrong year after year, supports the recommendations they previously made to the State and rejects all the Union proposals. 

It is also worth noting that AON’s repeated failures, and the Administration’s unwillingness to embrace common sense reforms, are what caused this crisis in the first place. Their solutions always end up costing the taxpayers and workers more money. Anyone who would trust them should have their head examined.

Furthermore, this report demonstrates exactly why there needs to urgency to bring about change to the State Health Benefits Program through common sense reforms instead of the “same old same old” that got us into this mess in the first place. Enough is enough! The leaders in the Legislature are going to have to decide what path they are going to follow – are they going to take meaningful steps to reform a broken system, or will they keep trusting the same people who continue to mismanage it?”