The urgency of tackling health care affordability
July 28, 2025From the MediaThe system is buckling under the weight of soaring costs of drugs and medical care by SARAH ISELIN, president and ...Read More
Wellpoint-IBIS Health Clinical Trial
July 25, 2025NewsWith Recruitment Phase Nearing End, Results Expected Next Year More than two years into its partnership with Wellpoint, Senscio Systems ...Read More
One big disaster for Massachusetts health care
July 17, 2025From the Media, NewsApproximately 326,000 Mass. residents are expected to lose insurance coverage under Trump’s big tax and spending cuts bill ...Read More
Social Security Eligibility 101
July 7, 2025Weekly News UpdateThe following was first published as the Mass Retirees Association's weekly news update on Friday, June 13, 2025. Each ...Read More
COLA Commission: Begins Discussions on State and Teacher Benefits
July 2, 2025NewsThe Special Commission on State and Teacher COLA improvements recently held its second meeting on March 10th. During this meeting ...Read More
Medicare Program Continues Push
July 2, 2025NewsCMS Begins 2nd Cycle of Negotiations Since its creation by IRA, the federal Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (P.L ...Read More
Healthcare Affordability Concerns Deepen
June 19, 2025Breaking News, NewsSteps Must Be Taken to Prevent Crisis Scenario For the better part of two years, Mass Retirees has sounded the ...Read More
Cola Commission: Reviews and Deliberates on Benefit Improvements
June 19, 2025Breaking News, NewsAs Mass Retirees members know, the Special COLA Commission is now reviewing steps that can be taken to improve COLA ...Read More
Social Security WEP/GPO Update
June 19, 2025NewsFairness Act Implementation Continues Since the repeal of the Social Security Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO ...Read More
2025 – 2026 Legislative & Budget Update
June 19, 2025NewsThe legislative session is in full swing with activity on the Fiscal Year 2026 budget underway between the middle of ...Read More
Locals Continuing to Increase Their COLA Base
June 19, 2025NewsIncreases Range From $15k to $22k Since local retirement boards have until July 1 to approve a new 2025 COLA ...Read More
2025-26 Membership Dues Increase
June 19, 2025NewsAs an Association representing public retirees who are living on fixed incomes, we are extremely mindful of the need to ...Read More
COLA History: Milestones Thru the Decades
June 19, 2025NewsMass Retirees at the Center of Reforms During the January meeting of the Special COLA Commission, Mass Retirees President Frank ...Read More
Spotlight: Mayflower Municipal Health Group
June 19, 2025NewsCloser Look at Joint Purchasing Arrangements Over the past year and a half, we have become increasingly concerned about rising ...Read More
GIC Report on Out-of-pocket Costs
June 19, 2025NewsContains Largely Good News For Retirees At their May meeting, GIC commissioners focused primarily upon the annual report on out ...Read More
CMS Rx Price Negotiations: Update
June 19, 2025NewsTimeline for 2nd Cycle As we reported in the last (April) Voice, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...Read More
Retirement Boards: Elections & Appointments
June 19, 2025NewsBoston – The Boston Retirement Board held a special election to replace Firefighter Michael O’Reilly who had resigned as one ...Read More
Senior Medicare Patrol: Preventing Medicare Fraud
June 19, 2025NewsAt the beginning of May the Association had an opportunity to participate in the Massachusetts Senior Medicare Patrol Program’s ...Read More
PAC Message to Donors: Thank You!
June 19, 2025Breaking News, NewsAnother Successful Spring Fundraising Drive We’re pleased to report that during this spring, members generously responded to the request ...Read More
2025 – 2026 Mass Retirees Meeting Season
June 17, 2025News, Breaking NewsBegins With the Annual Meeting on September 12. Traditionally with our September 12th Annual Meeting in Westport, Mass Retirees kicks ...Read More