Social Security Fairness Act: 3.1 Million Retirees Received $14 Billion in Payments
September 9, 2025NewsLess than seven months after being signed into law by President Joe Biden, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced ...Read More
Mass Retirees Legislative Update: Association Bills Receiving Public Hearings
September 9, 2025NewsSince the July edition of The Voice, the public hearing process has picked up pace. According Nancy McGovern, Director of ...Read More
COLA Commission Work Continues: Focus on Creating Enhanced Benefit
September 9, 2025NewsWhile local retirement systems continue to focus on incrementally increasing their respective COLA base, the work of the state’s ...Read More
Locals Continuing to Increase Their COLA Base: Nineteen Systems Increase Fy26 Base
September 9, 2025NewsOver the past 5 fiscal years (FY22- FY26) Mass Retirees is pleased to report that local retirement systems have continued ...Read More
Investment Returns & Funded Ratios for 104 Retirement Systems
September 9, 2025NewsKey Factors Impacting a COLA Base Increase Earlier in this Voice (page 1) we reported on the 2024 Investment Report ...Read More
Mass Retirees Endorses Boston Mayor Michelle Wu for Reelection
September 9, 2025Breaking News, NewsDating back to our Association’s founding in 1968, we have maintained a close working relationship with the mayor of ...Read More
Spring Conference Highlights: Mass Retirees Officials Participating in Panels
September 9, 2025NewsFrom June 1st to the 4th, the Association joined the Massachusetts Association of Contributory Retirement Systems (MACRS) at its 2025 ...Read More
State Retirement Board Improves Operations
September 9, 2025NewsEstimated Benefit Payment Plan Plays Significant Role A recently issued follow- up Audit by the Commonwealth’s pension oversight agency ...Read More
Retirement Boards Elections & Appointments
September 9, 2025NewsBelmont – Ross Vona, a firefighter, was unopposed and was reelected to the Belmont Retirement Board. Ross is beginning his fourth ...Read More
Medicare 2026 Part B Premiums: Projected Double Digit Increase
September 9, 2025NewsLater this fall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) will be announcing the Medicare Part B Premiums for next ...Read More
Valeri Announces Reelection for the State Retirement Board
September 8, 2025Breaking News, NewsMass Retirees President Frank Valeri has announced he will be a candidate for reelection to the State Retirement Board. Since ...Read More
Healthcare Affordability: As Collaboration Takes Shape
September 6, 2025NewsOur lead article in the July edition of The Voice was an editorial spelling out our deepening concerns regarding healthcare ...Read More
Substantial Gains for Mass Retirement Systems: PERAC Issues 2024 Investment Report
September 6, 2025NewsAnnually, the state’s public pension oversight agency, PERAC (Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission), publishes an Investment Report that summarizes ...Read More
Neilon Appointed Executive Vice President: Retired as MTRS Asst. Exec. Director & CFO
September 3, 2025Breaking News, NewsWith the passing of Executive VP Paul Shanley, Association President Frank Valeri fully recognized the importance of filling his position ...Read More
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