AFT Retiree Electronic Newsletter. Enjoy AFT Retiree Program's  bi-weekly electronic newsletter for AFT retiree activists.  The newsletter, prepared by AFT Retiree Program staff, focuses on issues, activities and practical information for leaders and members. 

Keep Up-to-Date. The AFT Program on Retirement and Retirees wants to help you stay in touch with up-to-date information on the latest news about pensions, healthcare, AFT PLUS benefits and other key retirement issues. If you are an AFT member interested in these issues, please fill out a short profile. 

Medicare Resources

The Medicare prescription drug benefit for people with Medicare—what will it mean to you? Find answers in this Q&A from the AFT.  Download the Q&A here (pdf).

Medicare Interactive provides information about the Medicare drug benefit and other Medicare issues.   

AFL-CIO Creates Organization to Promote Senior Issues. The Alliance for Retired Americans, the new membership organization for union and community retirees, was launched in late May 2001 in cities across the U.S. This article gives a series of questions and answers about the Alliance to help union officers and activists learn more about the new organization. 

Read the final report of the AFT executive council's retiree task force. The task force, created last year to review the union's programs for retired members, makes a series of recommendations to the union, ranging from organizing more retiree members to broadening the union's focus on retirement issues.