At the state convention
The Retired Teachers Chapter was well-represented at the New York State United Teachers’ 42nd Representative Assembly April 4–6 at the New York Hilton.Â
Reporting TRS distributions on your local income tax
If you received one or more of the distributions listed below during 2013, you are required to report the total gross amount of the distribution on line 16a and the taxable amount of the distribution on line 16b on your 2013 federal income tax form 1040.
Tomorrow’s another day
Our Retired Teachers Chapter members in Florida worked incredibly hard on the special election on March 11 to determine who would represent Florida’s 13th congressional district. Unfortunately, our candidate, Democrat Alex Sink, suffered a narrow defeat to Republican David Jolly.
Reporting TRS distributions on your local income tax
If you received one or more of the distributions listed below during 2013, you are required to report the total gross amount of the distribution on line 16a and the taxable amount of the distribution on line 16b on your 2013 federal income tax form 1040.
2013 sales tax break for New York, Florida and residents of other states
Federal tax law allows taxpayers who elect to itemize deductions to deduct their state and local income taxes or state and local general sales taxes to reduce their federal income tax.
No time to stop marching
Here's an important message sent to all of us via the Alliance for Retired Americans from Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, one of our staunchest supporters.
Reporting TRS distributions on your local income tax
If you received one or more of the distributions listed below during 2013, you are required to report the total gross amount of the distribution on line 16a and the taxable amount of the distribution on line 16b on your 2013 federal income tax form 1040.
Dealing with the forces against us
Considering our collective world view as teacher unionists from a progressive viewpoint, it is timely early in the year to try to make sense of the forces arrayed against us and the baffling logic that motivates them.
Give reps a piece of your mind
Lobbying elected officials is what we do and we do it well. That is why we retirees are lucky individuals, but we are retirees who have earned that luck.

Some new retirees will receive dues refunds
UFT/RTC members who received vacation paychecks for July and August at the end of June may have noticed that deductions were made for UFT dues.