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Save the date! New retiree luncheon

The UFT Welfare Fund’s New Retiree Luncheon will be held Tuesday, Nov. 17, inside Shanker Hall at UFT Headquarters,

2026 COLA increase is 1.7%

Learn what the 2026 cost of living increase will be for retired educators and other public employees beginning with their September New York State pension checks.

2026-27 RTC meetings

A listing of dates and times of the meetings of the Retired Teachers Chapter for the 2026-27 school year

Correct address needed to receive termination pay

Learn how to ensure NYC DOE has your correct address in order to receive checks for termination pay.


Become a Si Beagle instructor

UFT retirees are invited to apply to teach Si Beagle continuing education classes during the day in New York, New Jersey and Florida. Learn how.

Register for intersession Si Beagle classes

Learn when registration for intersession 2027 Si Beagle classes begins.

Another option for Part D prescription drug rider

Historically, New York City coverage for the GHI Senior Care Medicare Part D prescription drug rider and the 365-day hospitalization have been a combined rider. Now, retirees can decide whether to decouple the two benefits when the annual Health...

Living and laughing out loud

Fueled by decades of funny stories about teaching, retired 2nd-grade teacher Helaine Witt is going full throttle in making comedy her second act.


Welcome back to the front lines

Bennett Fischer, chapter leader of the UFT's Retired Teachers Chapter, welcomes retirees back to another year of impactful activism; first and foremost: the midterm elections, reminding retirees that the benefits many depend on are at stake.

A settlement on GHI Senior Care copays

A recent class action settlement with the city and EmblemHealth will give Medicare-eligible retirees in GHI Senior Care a reimbursement for copays they paid between January 2022 and February 2023.