NYS News

• Absentee Balloting in New York State

  April 20, 2020: Because of the COVID 19 pandemic NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued an executive order concerning the June 23, 2020 primary. **Pursuant to Executive Order 202.15 issued April 9, 2020, voters may request and vote via an absentee ballot for ...Read more >

• Results of the Campaign for New York Health Survey

  July 02, 2019: Members of NYSARA participated in the health survey conducted by the CNYH.  CNYH completed 2,409 Healthcare Rights and Access Surveys with residents all over New York State. CNYH trained volunteers on how to implement the survey, and collected resul...Read more >

• 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 Care Proxy allows you ...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 the campaign trail, ...Read more >

• New York’s proposed best interest standard for annuities and life insurance

  February 19, 2018: On Monday, November 27th the United States labor department postponed from Jan. 1, 2018, to July 1, 2019, the fiduciary rule that established the applicability of a legally binding contract between brokers and retirement-account clients that requi...Read more >

• NYSARA Lauds Progress on two of its 2017 NYS Legislative Issues

  May 21, 2017: The New York Health Act the “Medicare-for-all” bill—designed to provide health insurance to all state residents—passed the predominantly Democratic Assembly Tuesday afternoon May 16th following several hours of partisan back-and-forth on the ...Read more >

• Positions on the AHCA (Trump/Ryancare) by our Congressional Representatives

  March 26, 2017: All 18 Democratic Congresspersons committed to voting against How our nine Republican Congressional Representatives stood on the AHCA (Trumpcare) Supported the Bill (NY Times 3/24/2017) Lee Zeldin - 1st Congressional District John Faso - 19...Read more >

• Joint NYC Chapter of NYSARA and Council of Municipal Retiree Organizations (COMRO) Meeting February 15th

  February 17, 2017: On Wednesday February 15th the first ever joint meeting of the NYC Chapter of NYSARA and Council of Municipal Retiree Organizations (COMRO) was held at UFT headquarters.  The major topic of discussion was the status of the federal deliberations on t...Read more >

• NYSARA President speaks at the Renew the American Promise (RAP)/Health Care for America Now (HCAN) Meeting

  February 05, 2017: On Friday February 3rd NYSARA President Barry A. Kaufmann spoke at the annual NYS RAP/HCAN meeting in Albany. With over 100 activists in attendance the timelines and details of the consideration of issues such as the affordable care act, Medicare, Me...Read more >

• NYSARA 2017 Senior Legislative Agenda

  January 20, 2017: 1. Pass Safe Patient Staffing Bill in the NYS Senate 2. Work for the Rejection to the NYS Constitutional Convention 3. Retirement Security in NYS 4. Fight to reject amending Section 167-a of the Civil Service law that would freeze the reimbu...Read more >