Retired Detroit workers, including police and firefighters who are seeking to block the bankrupt city from unilaterally cutting their health care benefits, filed suit against the city, which is already struggling to provide its 700,000 residents with basic services, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The retirees said that the city’s decision to reduce funding of vested health-care benefits by 83 percent, starting in March, will force retirees to spend money out of pocket to replace the coverage, according to a filing on Thursday by representatives of the workers in bankruptcy court in Detroit. The retirees seek to block the city from dropping its state and federal “contractual obligation” to provide them with health care benefits, according to the filing.
