The Teachers' Retirement System may ask retirees to complete a Retirement Allowance Verification Form annually. Retirees must complete and return the form, or else risk having their monthly retirement allowance payments and city health benefits...

The UFT posthumously honored two accomplished members who died this year and presented their families with memorial plaques: Ron Jones, a former vice president for elementary schools, and Richard Miller, a former vice president of middle schools.


The UFT Welfare Fund Retiree Social Services' Nationwide Telephone Reassurance Program offers support for retirees that is just a phone call away. Retirees can chat for as long as they need about whatever issue they may wish to discuss or may be...

Richard Sacher, who retired from teaching in 2005, has made acting and singing his second act.

Zohran Mamdani's election is great news for union members and for the UFT. Never before have we had a mayor who is a stronger champion of workers, labor unions and ordinary New Yorkers.


Some 265 new UFT retirees were celebrated for their service, passion and commitment to changing students’ lives during the UFT Welfare Fund’s New Retiree Luncheon at UFT headquarters on Nov. 18.

EmblemHealth is changing its pharmacy benefit manager from Express Scripts to Prime Therapeutics for all its health plans, including GHI Senior Care, HIP VIP, HIP HMO or the NYCE PPO plan as of Jan. 1, 2026. Read the latest updates.

The UFT Retired Teachers Committee has a long history of activism and union involvement. Our current retiree committees are continuing this tradition.

In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 4 election, the Retired Teachers Chapter held a dozen afternoon phone banks at UFT headquarters in Manhattan, where RTC members urged fellow retirees to vote for Zohran Mamdani and the union’s other endorsed...