The UFT is continuing its decades-long battle to preserve premium-free health insurance for its members, both in-service and retired.

Welcome to the Retired Teachers Chapter section of the UFT website! There’s always a lot going on at the RTC and this section is your go-to place to get an overview of all the programs and services at your disposal as a retired member of the UFT.

The UFT is enhancing its Welfare Fund optical benefit and hearing aid benefit for in-service members and retirees effective March 1, 2022.

Yes, you can send both enrollment applications for the RTC and SHIP together in the envelope included in the retirement packet you were given at your final pension consultation. However, to avoid a delay in processing, you also have the option of...

For forms needing validation, such as optical and hearing aid, members should access the Forms Hotline at 212-539-0539.

Learn how to enroll in the UFT Welfare Fund or update your coverage as your family changes.

If you've already filed your retirement documents for health coverage and now want to change the date of your retirement, here's what you need to know.

WHEREAS President Obama and the Democratic majority of the U.S. Senate have refused to consider extortional proposals to defund the Affordable Care Act in order to fund the government and to raise the debt ceiling limit, RESOLVED that the UFT urge...