Tall salaries and costs that are medical older employees casualties in brand brand new recession.

March 10, 2009 Barbara Polahmius stated she devoted 13 years up to A california that is small health agency -- getting rave reviews on her behalf performance, mentoring other workers and dealing with additional tasks that have beenn't element of her work description.

However when the nonprofit had been bought out by way of a conglomerate that is large to lower your expenses, she had been the first ever to get.

In October, in the chronilogical age of 58, the Santa Cruz information that is medical ended up being let go, changed with a co-worker -- "a pleasant girl," half her age -- whom she had trained.

"we definitely think it had been my age," she told ABCNews.com. "we had been the people whom find out about time and effort and now have accumulated a very long time of real information.

"we could not prove it, but i simply felt that I became likely to be the main one they made a decision to ask to go out of," said Polahmius, that has twice survived cancer and it is disabled with fibromyalgia. "My medical care expenses are not inconsiderable."