these companies will recapture about $90 million from the hra's. that's equal to $2,000 per employee. i'm not arguing that this was fair and i'm certainly not trying to reward the companies that have been using the hra's, but i don't think it benefits workers or businesses to arbitrarily have the business cost -- that will have job losses or hiring freezes which would not be good for labor or businesses. i know the mayor was very concerned about and abrupt and i wanted to reach a consensus and i appreciate the fact that the coalition and supervisor campos and supervisor farrell came to the table to build that consensus. that is why i got involved because i knew there were great people at the table willing to work towards a better solution. we crafted a three year phase in that will allow worker to keep their health funds while giving businesses the time that they need to adjust. workers will receive guaranteed 60 percent ear revocable contributions startsing january 1 of 2015. 20 percent of ear revocable by january. so we expect it to be completely

and we really need to look at who is actually an mra accounts and who are in hra accounts on many of those people who actually don't need coverage, in san francisco. and they are other reasons, let's change the law to make it more compliant with the affordable care act. and focus on providing insurance, and i think that is what we all want to do. >> thank you. >> i am going to read a few more names, marindugan, connie forge. and alisa messer. >> okay. >> good morning, supervisors, campos and yee, i am the vice president for the para professionals for the united educators of san francisco and also a working parent and i represent the parent professionals who are low income workers in sfusd. and i know that the struggle that it is to keep the health insurance and to make ends meet. uesf supports compromise because it will close the loophole to be sure that the money goes to the working people and there are laws that the public health department to come up with a plan to cover working san francisco. and we appreciate co-sponsors supervisor kim, mar, and avalos and we applaud supervisor

those are referred to hra's. prior to january 1, 2014, those accounts were allowable and could reimburse for certain medical expenses and then upon 24 months of inactivity, the money will revet to the balance. they don't meet minimum coverage under the action ca -- what's allowed is those linked up with health insurance. those that cover accepted benefits, those that are accepted out of the minimum like dental and vision that don't comes with your health insurance. it comprises of two things. medical reimbursement accounts and those are operated by the city that monitors like an hra but operated by the city and healthy san francisco. so if a person is eligible right now for healthy san francisco, they're routed into healthy san francisco and if they are not eligible for healthy san francisco, they don't live in san francisco for example, they work here but at the don't live here, then it twos to a reimbursements act. this is how it works today. starting at the blue box on the left, the health care security ordina

many of these workers are struggling day-to-day, paycheck to paycheck and when they have an hra, they work under the assumption that the worker can pay and they'll get reimbursed through this and i work for the ahr and i'm married to a restaurant worker who has an hra. it's extremely challenging to draw down all of that money. i don't know if you have a credit card, but i'm guessing you do. most of these workers don't. you have to get online in most cases and try to figure out which cost are covered and which aren't. this are lots of restrictions on the money and what it can be used for. currently you can use them for vision and dental care. this is not a model that's set up to support workers and get them health care. this money is owed to the workers under a law and a fight that's been had to pass the original acso. i'm lucky that i have health care, but many of these workers do not. it's high time we close this loophole. we've been here with you before. we respect and honor your commitment to getting the most people health care under this system and i appreciate your time. thank yo

current san francisco law allows employers to reclaim money under hra after 24 months. in 2012 which was the most recent date, of the 107 plus million dollars that was allocated through these accounts accident employers reimburse 26 plus million of those dollars to workers. that represented 24.6 percent of the total dollars placed into those accounts. therefore, in 2012, over 80 million was pocketed by employers and this is what we refer to as the loophole. the office of labor standards enforcement has not published their data for 2013. we asked them for preliminary numbers and things have gotten worse. of the 124 plus million dollars placed in reimbursement accounts, only 20 possess were reimbursed. only 24.5 percent of the dollars were actually used to support work -- support worker's health change. it was pocketed by businesses. and this is the equivalent of $1.8 million per week that should have gone to worker haelts change and did not. >> i wanted to give you a sense using the current publication. it's a minority of employers that's exploiting this loophole and the

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that storm is gone, but it hra anot warning heaasoved p counties. this is another area with heavy rain and even lightning here. this area is seeing a flood as well. heavy downpours. you can tell that the showers have merged together the thunderstorms. they are not moving very quickly. this is why we see flash flooding. locally looki philph skyline, w overcast conditions and light rain. we are dealing with heavier showers. temperature has dropped off and 76 degrees in areas and still in the low 80s. this will once again still be adding fuel to the thunderstorms as we go through the rest of the evening. by 6:00 p.m., scattered showers and temperatures around 80. hum. still the scattered showers and by 10:00, isolated showers. heavy downpours through this evening. we will track the showers and storms for you and another foggy night in store for you. all that coming up. >> new information on the shut down of the 495 bridge over the river in wilmington. they are hoping to reopen the southbound lanes by labor day and the northdew s afrthat. tim furnghe n

stefan radu hra martha has the details. >> reporter: 22 miller, and matthew miller. miller will be tried for what they call absurd behavior. he tore up his visa and demanded asylum. as for fowle, from ohio, he reportedly left a bible in his hotel room. but he was not on a mission for his church. the state department strongly advises u.s. citizens not to travel to north korea. the north koreans have been holding korean-american missionary kenneth bae, and an elderly veteran was released after apologizing on tape. there's no scheduled date for the trial. >> back to two things, the absurd behavior of one, and the bible in the room of the other. is that enough to get punished for in north korea? >> all over a bible. that's a provocative act in north korea, no religious freedom. >> thanks. >>> now to the crisis at the border. the surge of illegal immigrants entering from mexico, many of them children without their parents. this morning, president obama is making an urgent request, asking congress for emergency funds to tackle the crisis. jim avila has the latest. >> repor