Sanders staffers will remain on campaign’s health care plan through fall

Staffers for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2020 presidential bid will be able to remain on the campaign’s health care plan through the fall despite Sanders’s suspension of his campaign Wednesday, a spokesperson announced Thursday.

Faiz Shakir, Sanders’s campaign manager, made the announcement during an all-staff call, and a Sanders campaign official confirmed to The Hill that workers would remain on the campaign health care plan through October.

NEWS: Sen. @BernieSanders is going to keep all Sanders campaign staffers on the campaign’s health care plan through November 2020, campaign manager Faiz Shakir said this afternoon on an all-staff call.

— Gary Grumbach (@GaryGrumbach) April 9, 2020

“Thankful to Bernie who we just found out was adamant his entire campaign staff stays on our health insurance through November so yay I still have health care but health insurance shouldn’t be tied to your job!!!!!!!!” Sara Pearl, a former supervising producer for the campaign, tweeted Thursday.

thankful to Bernie who we just found out was adamant his entire campaign staff stays on our health insurance through November so yay I still have health care but health insurance shouldn’t be tied to your job!!!!!!!!

— Sara Pearl (@skenigsberg) April 9, 2020

The announcement comes one day after Sanders announced he would suspend his campaign, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden unopposed for the Democratic presidential nomination.

It also comes weeks after a former campaign staffer for former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign sued on behalf of herself and other former campaign workers, arguing they were promised jobs through November before the campaign laid them off and Bloomberg ended his own campaign.