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, 2025Breaking News, NewsBegins With the Annual Meeting on September 12. Traditionally with our September 12th Annual Meeting in Westport, Mass Retirees kicks ...Read More
Medicare Fraud Prevention Week
May 30, 2025Weekly News UpdateWeekly Update, May 30, 2025: With Medicare Fraud Prevention Week starting on Monday, our focus this week is on the ...Read More
Alert: Beware of Social Security Scams
May 16, 2025Weekly News UpdateThis week our focus returns to two main topics of concern: Social Security and healthcare. We also want to remind ...Read More
Protecting Retiree Health Insurance
May 14, 2025NewsHelp Defend Your Right to Quality & Affordable Health Care As a public retiree, your right to high-quality and ...Read More
Social Security Fairness Act Implementation Underway
May 13, 2025NewsEffected Retirees Receive Retro Payments to January 2024 Just seven weeks after the Social Security Fairness Act was signed into ...Read More
Upcoming Spring Meetings
May 13, 2025NewsWith winter winding down (hopefully), Mass Retirees will be conducting a full schedule of Spring Meetings. “Please pay particular attention ...Read More
MASS RETIREES 2025-2026 Legislative Program
May 13, 2025NewsThe new legislative session commenced on January 1 with the swearing-in of the 194th General Court. Representative Ronald Mariano ...Read More