LANSING — Mayor Andy Schor said a new deal will settle a dispute involving a group of fire department retirees who faced rising healthcare costs after the city took a new look at an old contract.

Schor said the escalating costs affected 65 employees who retired between 2014 and 2021 under a contract that, "upon recent legal review, required them to pay all costs over the state mandated hard cap."

The city's legal review this year resulted in the city passing on new healthcare costs of $500 to $900 a month to retirees, according to union officials, and drew vocal complaints from the former firefighters.

The issue prompted the city's firefighter union, the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 421, to file a grievance alleging the city misinterpreted the 2013 contract in its le

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