Jeffrey G. Stein

Local 1199 National Benefit Fund
Jeffrey Stein is General Counsel to the 1199SEIU Funds, which are made up of 22 Taft-Hartley funds that provide the members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East and their families with comprehensive health, pension, training, child care and quality of life benefits. The three 1199SEIU Pension Funds are among the largest self-administered, self-insured Taft-Hartley funds in the nation, with over $9 billion in assets, while the five 1199SEIU Benefit Funds provide more than a billion and a half dollars annually in hospital, medical and other health and welfare benefits and are at the forefront of many innovative health care initiatives that contain costs while preserving members' first-dollar coverage. Twelve of the 1199SEIU Funds are administered under an umbrella known as the 1199SEIU Training and Employment Funds (“TEF”). These Funds address downsizing and economic change in the health care industry by working with the Union and employers to create educational programs for members at risk of layoff, facilitate job restructuring to avoid layoffs to the extent possible, and assist laid off members with job skills training, job placement, and financial and health benefits.. Two additional plans, the 1199SEIU Child Care Funds, were among the first in the nation to provide low-cost child care benefits to Union members. Mr. Stein received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1972 and a Masters Degree in Education from Cornell in 1977, a J.D. from NYU School of Law in 1982, and an LL.M. in Taxation from NYU in 1997. Prior to his employment with the Funds, Mr. Stein was an associate at Levy, Ratner, a union-side law firm in New York City, and was responsible both for union side labor representation and employee benefits work. Before that, he was on the faculty of New York University School of Law and spent six years at the Legal Aid Society of New York. He has spoken previously concerning employee benefits at programs sponsored by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, the Legal Education Institute, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Employee Benefits Committee, the American Bar Association, Section of Labor and Employment, the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee, and Cornell University. He is a fellow of the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel and a member of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.  He previously was a Co-chair of the Civil Practice Subcommittee of the Employee Benefits Committee of the Labor Section of the American Bar Association and a chapter editor of Employee Benefits Law ( 2d Ed. BNA).
 
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