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• Advance Care Directives in New York State

  June 13, 2019: In New York State, the best way to ensure that your health care wishes are known and followed is to use Advance Directives. These are legal documents that will speak for you if you are unable to speak for yourself. A Health Car Read More >

• Long Island Chapter of NYSARA Spring Conference

  May 20, 2019: Speakers: Adrian Espasito - noted conservation expert and Barry A. Kaufmann, President of the NYS Alliance for Retired Americans Read More >

• NYS Alliance 2018 Annual Congressional Voting Record

  May 20, 2019: On Thursday the national Alliance released its 2018 Congressional Voting Record scoring each U.S. Senator and Representative’s votes on critical retirement security issues. “Most politicians say they care about seniors on Read More >

• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About the Current Debate on Driving down the Cost of Prescription Drugs

  April 30, 2019:   How much can government negotiations drive down the cost of prescription drugs for patients? In other countries where the government negotiates directly for prescription drugs, costs are significantly lower for the sa Read More >

• NYSARA Recommends to Senator Schumer that NYSARA Member Eric Kingson, of Syracuse University, be recommended to the Vacant Social Security Public Trustee Position

  April 09, 2019: On March 26th NYSARA President Barry A. Kaufmann sent a letter to Senator Chuck Schumer, US Senate Minority leader (D/NYS), asking him to nominate Eric Kingson to the vacant Social Security Public Trustee position.  Traditional Read More >

• NYSARA Leadership to Visit New Congressional Representatives Local Members Needed

  March 06, 2019: NYSARA President Barry A. Kaufmann and Executive Director Steve Madarasz will be making appointments to visit all the freshman members of the NYS congressional delegation in March April and May. During those meetings NYSARA le Read More >

• The Truth About Social Security and Medicare in New York

  February 17, 2019: Social Security Works for New York's Children Social Security provided benefits to 240,564 New York children in 2016.  1 in 14 (6.8%) New York beneficiaries Social Security Works for New York's People of Color Social Read More >

• 2019 Social Security Legislation from the House of Representatives

  February 04, 2019: More than 200 House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that would expand Social Security benefits and gradually ramp up how much workers contribute to the social insurance program. The Social Security 2100 Act ca Read More >

• NYSARA Annual Conference

  January 07, 2019: Read More >

• Study Finds Public Pensions Power the Economy

  January 07, 2019: Public pension funds contributed a net $137.3 billion to state and local government coffers during 2016, underscoring their power to strengthen the U.S. economy, according to an analysis by the National Conference on Public Empl Read More >