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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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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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Weekly Update, September 26, 2025: This week the Joint Committee on Public Service held a public hearing on four separate Mass Retirees proposals. Association officials, led by President Frank Valeri, were on hand at Monday’s hearing to offer testimony in support of our legislation. The four topics included: Pension Funding, Local Insurance Advisory/Public Employee Committees, increasing the COLA base for members of the State and Teachers’ Retirement Systems, and creating a new Enhanced or “Seni

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Weekly Update, Friday, November 14, 2025: On Wednesday, we celebrated the first anniversary of the historic vote in the US House of Representatives to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). Passed by the US Senate on December 21st and then signed into law by President Joe Biden on January 5, 2025, the Social Security Fairness Act has proven to be “life changing” for more than 120,000 Massachusetts residents and some 3.1 million retirees across the co

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Weekly Update, January 30, 2026: On Wednesday, Governor Maura Healey unveiled her Administration’s FY27 budget proposal, which was accompanied by a change in the Commonwealth’s Pension Funding Schedule. The Commonwealth’s Pension Funding Schedule applies to the State and Teachers’ Retirement Systems, while the state’s 102 local retirement systems each have their own funding schedule. Known as H.2, the Governor’s proposal comes in at $63.36 billion or 3.8% above the original FY26 appropriation ap

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Weekly Update, October 31, 2025: Happy Halloween! This week our focus returns to the Special COLA Commission, with an update on the ongoing work of the Commission. Since our founding in 1968, a consistent area of focus has been on improving the COLA for all retired Massachusetts public employees. Created within the FY25 State Budget at the behest of Mass Retirees, the focus of the Special Commission is to study and recommend improvements to the current COLA benefit. This includes increasing the

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Mass Retirees: Celebrating 50 Years

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The truth about the WEP & GPO: Repeal vs. Reform

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Growing the COLA Base

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Inside the April Newsletter

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