Having been a longtime attorney for UAW Legal Services Plans, I get asked by a lot of the UAW members and retirees about a new legal services benefit in the contracts with Ford, Fiat Chrysler and General Motors that were ratified in the Fall of 2015. In the Fall 2015, the automakers agreed to reinstate a legal services benefit for members, retirees and their families. Since then news has been scarce. Apparently a letter just went out to UAW retirees that the new legal services benefit is about a month away. All I know is that if this benefit is going to be operational in the March/April 2016 time frame, in my opinion, it is unlikely that it will be delivered through the remnants of the old UAW Legal Services Plan. My contacts at the remaining offices have indicated that they have not been advised as to plans for the new legal services benefit. If you have questions relating to the new legal services benefit, don’t call me, contact the UAW at www.uaw.org. None of this is official information. I’m only posting it because people have been craving information of any sort.
I checked the website for the old plan at www.uawlsp.com, but it has no updated information. There is nothing on the UAW site at www.UAW.org.