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Labor Parade 2024

Join the UFT as we demonstrate our pride in the labor movement and show that New York City is a union town.

Retired Teachers Chapter Luncheon 2024

About 500 people attended the 58th annual Retired Teachers Chapter Luncheon on May 30 at the New York Hilton Midtown, where they recognized 13 fellow retirees with awards for their activism and congratulated a retired Queens teacher who turned 100. The attendees were encouraged to stay involved and “speak into the future” as advocates.

Medicare Part B reimbursements

Time to review your bank accounts to ensure that you received Medicare Part B 2023 reimbursements that were scheduled to be distributed in mid-April 2024.

IRMAA 2023 reimbursements

Medicare B 2023 IRMAA reimbursements are scheduled to be issued by October 2024. Eligible retirees must submit the IRMAA 2023 application along with required supporting documents.

Making it her mission in LYFE

Marjorie Wilson, the first chapter leader of the UFT's LYFE chapter and the teen parenting program's first social worker at LYFE's start 42 years ago, has been honored by the Retired Teachers Chapter for her decades of service.

Rules governing work after retirement

Here's what you need to know about making extra income after retirement from the New York City DOE.

Retired teacher becomes a Dragon Sister

Retiree Rita Kelly is setting the world ablaze in her second act as a Dragon Sister, one of an all-woman crew of dragon boat racers in Florida, where she and her teammates brave the waters in a thousand-year-old sport of endurance and speed.

The summer of our discontent

In the months leading up to November's momentous presidential election, we can remain on the sidelines and let the bad guys make the decisions, or we can enter the political fray, enlist our friends and allies in the battle and forge victories.

Retired Teachers Chapter Luncheon

This year's Retired Teachers Chapter Luncheon celebrated the "visionaries" on whose shoulders stand retirees and in-service members alike as some 500 attendees were urged to continue advocating for political change and the rights of educators...

Appellate court rules on city's Medicare Advantage plan

A state appellate court recently issued a ruling regarding city retiree health care.