Charleston, WV – At today’s PEIA Finance Board meeting, employees were saved from the benefit cuts that were proposed for the next fiscal year. Only moments prior to the meeting, Governor Tomblin committed an additional $4 million to prevent these benefit reductions, which included huge increases on specialty drugs and additional out of pocket costs, penalizing the sickest and most vulnerable people in the plan. Despite this funding from the Governor, the PEIA director suggested keeping the proposed changes in specialty drugs, which would have increased co-pays from $50 to $85 on each