WEP-GPO

WEP/GPO UPDATE

October 3, 2024
Will Supermajority Congressional Support Yield Results? Congressional support to bring an end to the Social Security Windfall Elimination (WEP) and ...

Mass Retirees: Legislative Update

October 3, 2024
General Court Completes Formal Sessions with New Retiree Legislation Being Enacted 2024 is the second year of the 2023-2024 ...

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 ...

HEALTHCARE NEWS: GIC & Blue Cross

October 3, 2024
Health insurance and benefits for public retirees, both at the GIC and the local level remain a focus of the ...

Blue Cross Municipal Health Insurance Summit

October 3, 2024
Blue Cross Blue Shield will be sponsoring a second Municipal Health Insurance Summit in which Mass Retirees will again be ...

Medicare Announces Drug Prices: Producing Future Significant Savings

October 3, 2024
Since its creation in the federal Income Reduction Act of 2022 (P.L.117-169), Mass Retirees has been closely ...

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 ...

Medicare 2025 Part B Premiums Expected to Increase

October 3, 2024
Later this fall CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) will be announcing the Medicare Part B Premiums for next ...

Mass Retirees Annual Cola Update: Twenty Systems Increase Base in Fy25

October 3, 2024
For FY25, Mass Retirees is pleased to report that all 102 local retirement board have approved a 3% COLA, effective ...
ibis health

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 ...