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• NYSARA Biennial Election Convention

  July 27, 2025:   Date:  September 4, 2025 10:30 am to 3:00 pm:   Place: NYSUT Headquarters 800 Troy Schenectady Rd. Latham, NY   Purpose:  To Elect NYSARA Officers 2025 -2027, Get Information on Issues both Read More >

• Tell Your Representative to Vote YES to Keep Field Offices Open

  July 14, 2025: Read More >

• KFF Health News: To Keep Medicaid, Mom Caring for Disabled Adult Son Faces Prospect of Proving She Works

  July 10, 2025: Four years before Kimberly Gallagher enrolled in Medicaid herself, the public health insurance program’s rules prompted her to make an excruciating choice — to give up guardianship of her son so she could work as his caregiver Read More >

• Things New York Seniors Need to Know About the Big Awful Budget Bill Passed by Republicans That Have Been Passed Over or Hidden.

  July 07, 2025:   1.    The Senate Bill Increases the Cuts to Medicaid to $1.1 trillion.  Almost $300 billion more than the awful House bill. (63% of nursing home residents use Medicaid to pay) 2.   Medicaid Cuts do not take Read More >

• NYS Comptroller DiNapoli: Cuts to SNAP Program in the Big Awful Bill Means More New Yorkers Without Enough Food

  July 07, 2025:   Proposed federal changes to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation’s largest program helping households obtain food, would increase costs to state governments, limit eligibil Read More >

• The Federal Budget is an Assault on New York The US House and Senate just passed a budget that will hurt working New Yorkers in order to maintain tax cuts for the rich. By the Fiscal Policy Institute

  July 07, 2025:   The U.S. Congress just passed a federal budget that will cost the State of New York over $15 billion per year, kick 1.5 million New Yorkers off their health insurance, eliminate benefits for up to 1 mi Read More >

• Tell Congress to Stop Medicare Cuts

  July 07, 2025: Read More >

• Social Security Administration Updates Website to Include New Office Closures

  July 04, 2025: The Social Security Administration has updated its “Office Closings and Emergencies” page to list several field offices as “only able to provide assistance by telephone until further notice.” These include the Hoboken and Read More >

• KFF Health News: Republican Megabill Will Mean Higher Health Costs for Many Americans

  July 03, 2025: President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts federal spending on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces by about $1 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, threateni Read More >

• KFF Health News: Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

  June 18, 2025: On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Pregnant with her second child, she schleps a backpack instead of a traditional black bag to Read More >