Weekly Update, October 17, 2025: Once again, the focus of our weekly report is healthcare. While there are other ongoing issues of importance to public retirees (which we will continue to report on as new information becomes available), the growing concern over healthcare affordability requires that we remain actively engaged in this broad topic. On Thursday, two important meetings on public employee/retiree health insurance took place at the same time. BCBS of MA hosted the Third Annual Municip
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Weekly Update, February 6, 2026: Given the growing concerns regarding healthcare affordability and the real potential for cost shifting at both the state and local levels of government, it is important to gauge how these issues are impacting our members. Our weekly email contains a short confidential Healthcare Survey. The 16-questions are designed to learn from Mass Retirees members and hear your thoughts. With the state’s Group Insurance Commission (GIC) scheduled to meet next Thursday (2/12)
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Weekly Update, October 10, 2025: With Medicare’s annual Open Enrollment period about to begin on October 15, this is a good opportunity to revisit how the plan impacts retired Massachusetts public employees – and how it does not. We strongly suggest that retired public employees ignore the onslaught of ads, calls, and marketing materials that are about to be directed at you. Medicare’s Open Enrollment is specifically focused on individual Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, not the group MA or tradit
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Weekly Update, October 24, 2025: The intended focus of this week’s report had been our legislative proposals, which have begun to advance through the legislative process. While we will still report on those topics this week, we must first turn our attention to the breaking news of a contract dispute between UMass Memorial Health System and Blue Cross and Blue Shield MA that – if unsolved – could disrupt 185,000 non-Medicare enrollees when the current contract expires on January 1. This summer, M
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As we near the end of 2025, our Association has much for which to be thankful. Due to the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act, many public retirees are more financially secure than they were just a year ago. And the work and pending report by the Special COLA Commission brings hope that improvements to the cost-of-living adjustment may be near. However, there are also serious threats to retirees on the horizon. Rapidly rising healthcare costs have resulted in an affordability crisis. Thi
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Weekly Update, January 23, 2026: This week we are momentarily shifting our focus from the healthcare affordability crisis to the recently released report and recommendations for the Special COLA Commission. Filed with the legislature on December 31st, the 40-page report is the product of nearly a year’s work by the 7-member Commission and the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission (PERAC). In 2024, our Association proposed the creation of the Special COLA Commission to formally bri
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Weekly Update, Friday, January 9, 2026: Happy New Year! Our weekly update is back. We hope that everyone had a good holiday season. We are kicking off our Mass Retirees 2026 Weekly Updates with a preview of the specific issues impacting public retirees in the weeks and months ahead. Ranging from protecting retirees’ rights to high quality and affordable health insurance, implementing the recommendations of the COLA Commission, to passing our Association’s legislative agenda – there is a lot on o
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