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

Investment Returns & Funded Ratios for 104 Retirement Systems

October 3, 2024
Key Factors Impacting a Cola Base Increase Earlier we highlighted the success that retirement boards achieved investing their pension funds ...

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 ...

Studies Focus on Use of Medical Cannabis

October 3, 2024
Prevalence of Use Grows, but Lack of Guidance Persists We all know that healthcare continues to become more complicated and ...

Fall 2024 Area Meetings Across the Commonwealth

September 18, 2024
With our September 13th Annual Meeting, Mass Retirees has kicked off its 2024-2025 Season of in-person area meetings ...

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 ...

Fall 2024 Meeting Schedule

September 11, 2024,
Annual Meeting Friday, September 13, 2024, at 11:00 AM enVISION HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER 31 HAMPSHIRE ST, MANSFIELD, MA ...

Fall 2024 Outlook

September 11, 2024,
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024: As we head into fall, Mass Retirees is directly involved in and focused on several important areas ...

COLA: What you need to know

August 3, 2024
With the creation of the Special COLA Commission approved by Governor Maura Healey within the FY25 budget, it is a ...

Response to Herald Assault on Public Pensions

July 11, 2024,
To The Editor: The July 9, 2024, editorial “Taxpayer-funded public pensions have got to go” represents a misleading and ...

Nearly 20% of Retirement Systems at or Near Full Funding

July 10, 2024,
Investment Success Must Be Shared Twenty of the 104 Massachusetts public retirement systems were at least 90% fully funded as ...