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Thank you for using the website!
If you are not a member and would like a membership package to review please call: Membership Chairman Mike Morano at 845-528-5478 or call 914-961-3800 and leave your name & address. Please speak slow & clearly when leaving your information. Thank you!!!
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The Executive Board of the NYPFRA would like to thank you for using our new website. The one thing that you can help us out with, is to please pass the word or send an email to your retired or active friends from the job to please sign on or join our ranks. In our newsletter we will be asking each member to log on and use the site.
The website will allow us to have instant contact with our members especially when legislation starts moving in the state legislature. Important retiree issues can be listed under member resources along with the links to other related areas. News concerns will be posted as we receive them. Again your support is greatly appreciated and please pass the word and emails about the website.
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New York Legislature approves pension overhaul
By BLOOMBERG
PUBLISHED: March 15, 2012
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
The New York Legislature approved much of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pension overhaul by offering a defined contribution option for the first time to some non-union employees and raising the retirement age for most new workers. Read More...
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Eye on NY: New coalition to focus on state constitutional reform
Robert Harding | Posted: Sunday, February 5, 2012 3:05 am
What do you get when you cross a former Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, the current Assembly Republican leader and a college professor?
A coalition of opposites, of course.
Dr. Read More...
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White Plains Wins 1st Battle Over Police Retiree Benefits!
WHITE PLAINS — City Hall has captured its first significant win in its highly litigated battle to alter its health care contributions. An arbitrator announced Wednesday that he was siding with the city in a dispute brought by the police union. Read More...
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Just (1-29-11) received information from one of our members that his state pension check was less than usual after checking with the OSC (office of the state comptroller) at the following address http://www.osc.state.ny.us/retire/retirees/tax_implications.php the information is below. Please pass the word. Read More...
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Under Pension News Articles in the menu options there are two new very scary articles. Let the States Go Bankrupt & To Save the States. This issue is beginning to gain ground with federal legislators. Read More...
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Please note: In the main Menu under News Concerns and Pension & Health Ins. News Articles there are several links to many articles that have been in the NY papers. Their content may appear to be related to NYC but there impact will be felt across the state as other municipalities start to do comparisons in the same way within their own police and firefighter ranks. Be extremely thankful that the NYS Constitution prohibits pensions from being diminished. This is an issue we have fought to keep in place over the years when the NYS Constitutional Convention issues arise. The health insurance issue will continued to be attacked.
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Our next meeting is on Monday, June 4, 2012 the Homefield House, 911 Saw Mill River Road, Yonkers at 7:33 pm. Read More...
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Special Note: Medicare: You Must Enroll
NYSHIP requires you and your dependents to be enrolled in Medicare Parts A and B when first eligible You/your dependents must be enrolled when first eligible even if also covered through another employer's group plan. Read More...
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Detective Michael Perry Memorial Highway
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed a law that designates a portion of State Route 119 in White Plains as the Detective Michael Perry Memorial Highway.
Assemblyman Robert J. Read More...
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