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• New retirees’ health insurance deductions

  When municipal employees retire, it takes several months before they start receiving regular pension checks from the city and another few months before those checks reflect the optional rider deduction for health insurance.

• Fighting for health care reform

  The report from Washington, D.C., where six of us representing the Retired Teachers Chapter gathered with more than 100 other retiree leaders from across the country at the three-day AFT Retiree Leader Conference, is that health care reform remains the top priority on everyone’s mind.

• Membership meets

  The auditorium at UFT headquarters was packed for the first Retired Teachers Chapter general membership meeting of the year on Oct. 13.

• City pays Medicare Part B refunds; city will pay means-tested surcharges

  The city has mailed most of the 2008 reimbursement Medicare Part B refunds to our members and their spouses or domestic partners.

• Fancy meeting you here

  Guess who folks from the UFT’s Retired Teachers Chapter and Political Action Department ran into at a rally for New Jersey Gov. John Corzine on Oct. 20 at the Newark Teachers Union?

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