RTC Information

Here are some commonly asked questions about the new city health plan, NYCE PPO, specifically for pre-Medicare retirees.

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 candidates.

Here are the meeting dates and times for the RTC general membership meetings scheduled for the 2025-26 school year.

The Adams administration has dropped its effort to implement a Medicare Advantage health care plan for the city’s roughly 250,000 Medicare-eligible retirees.

Registration for intersession 2026 Si Beagle classes begins on Oct. 14, 2025.

The September 2025 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), which retired members will see in their September pension checks, is 1.2%. Eligible retirees will receive up to $216 -- or $18 per month -- before taxes from the COLA.