Articles about Retirement Benefits that may be useful to Massachusetts retirees.

Public Service Committee Begins Work

April 12, 2025
In late February, the House and Senate announced legislative committee assignments for the 2025-2026 legislative session. The Joint Committee ...Read More

UPDATE: State Board Estimated First Pension Payment

April 6, 2025
EIBP “Paying Off” During Initial Operation As one of the two elected members of the Mass State Retirement Board (MSRB ...Read More

Healthcare Affordability

December 16, 2024,
Challenge Looming for 2025 There is a healthcare affordability crisis looming that will likely cause great harm to a growing ...Read More

Medicare Premium Changes for 2025

December 16, 2024
Standard Part B Increasing By 5.9% As we accurately projected in our last (October) Voice, the 2025 standard premium ...Read More

State & Teachers’ 2025 Pension Payments

December 16, 2024,
Calendar of Mailing & Direct Deposit Dates For our state and teacher members, we’re including a calendar of the ...Read More

Reports Indicate Healthy State & Teachers’ Systems

December 16, 2024,
As Prit Fund on Track for 2nd Consecutive Double-digit Return Through the first three quarters of 2024, the Commonwealth ...Read More

State Pension Fund Achieves Record

October 3, 2024,
Prim Ends Fy24 With $105.3 Billion in Assets Last month, the state’s PRIM investment committee reported a record ...Read More
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IBIS Health and Wellpoint Clinical Trial Study Underway

October 3, 2024
New Data Showing Reductions In Hospitalizations & ER Visits Nearly 18 months into its partnership with Wellpoint (formerly known as ...Read More

Cape Area Meeting End of Season

October 3, 2024
Traditionally Mass Retirees begins its in-person meeting season with the September Annual Meeting. And, it ends with our Cape ...Read More

Major Victories for Public Retirees

September 18, 2024
COLA Commission & Basic Life Insurance Increase Now Law The approval of the FY25 State Budget this July delivered several ...Read More