Retirement Boards: Elections & Appointments

July 10, 2024,
Andover – Andover Retirement Board members reappointed Blackwell “Bojay” Taylor as their fifth member and Firefighter Eric Teichert was re-elected ...Read More

Mass Retirees Survey Shows Strong Interest in Medical Cannabis

July 10, 2024,
More Than 1,900 Members Participated in Poll Twelve years after medical marijuana was legalized here in Massachusetts and with ...Read More

EO Care Study: Promising Results

July 10, 2024,
Initial studies around the impact of the use of medical cannabis on health care costs are promising, including one by ...Read More

Health insurance news to start FY25

June 28, 2024,
Weekly News Update: June 28, 2024 In addition to this week’s update being the last for the month of ...Read More

State Budget & WEP/GPO News

June 18, 2024, ,
This week our focus returns to the FY25 State Budget, which is now before a House /Senate conference committee, as ...Read More

If you’ve earned a public pension, beware of how it affects your Social Security benefits in retirement

June 10, 2024,
The Social Security Administration slashed Falmouth resident Venera Cocks’s benefits and is demanding repayment of over $16,000 after ...Read More

Steward Outlines Process To Sell, Auction Hospitals

May 16, 2024,
Bids For Mass. Hospitals Would Be Due June 24 Colin A. Young, State House News Service STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MAY ...Read More

Health care in Massachusetts is in need of reform

May 15, 2024, ,
It is the Legislature’s responsibility to ensure that what happened with Steward Health Care never happens again in Massachusetts ...Read More

Social Security Subcommittee Hearing on the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset Testimony

April 30, 2024,
April 16, 2024: Official testimony submitted to the House Committee on Ways and Means  Chairman Jason Smith, Ranking Member Richard ...Read More

WEP/GPO Hearing Rundown

April 19, 2024,
April 19, 2024: The following is Mass Retirees analysis of the April 16, 2024 Congressional hearing on the Social Security ...Read More