A 50-member volunteer Retiree Health Care Committee has been created by the Retired Teachers Chapter to serve as middlemen between the chapter and union leadership on health care topics.

Medicare Part B 2020 reimbursements were scheduled to be distributed by the end of April 2021.

IRMAA 2020 reimbursements are scheduled to be issued by the end of October 2021.

After 44 years of nurturing the popular Supplemental Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) for UFT retirees and their families, Director Irene Lospenuso is retiring.

The UFT Welfare Fund Retiree Programs is seeking new instructors in New York and Florida.

The UFT Legal Plan with its Elder Law Supplement helps and protects all Retired Teachers Chapter members and their spouses or domestic partners.

Retired teacher Peter Cohn is the driving force in the effort to reopen the Knothole Museum, a shuttered historical site in Nassau County on Long Island.

Retirees in the RTC's Brooklyn section have made the best of the pandemic situation, with a record turnout of 1,030 retirees attending virtual Si Beagle classes.

The pandemic has wrought unimaginable change. But intead of bowing to the fear of it, we made it our friend.

The 2021 Retired Teachers Chapter election will begin in March to elect members to the following positions for three-year terms that begin July 1: chapter leader, vice chairs, secretary, assistant secretary, corresponding secretary, treasurer and assistant treasurer, plus 15 Executive Board members and 300 delegates.