Retirees

Musk wants to compel seniors to come to X for Social Security information

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is moving all of its public communications off its website and onto the social media site owned by billionaire and DOGE leader Elon Musk, according to reporting from Wired.

Musk wants to compel seniors to come to X for Social Security information

Keeping up the fight to fix Tier 2

AFSCME and our allies in the We Are One Illinois coalition are vowing to carry the fight for pension fairness forward into the spring legislative session, but it’s going to take the involvement of every AFSCME member to get it over the finish line.

Keeping up the fight to fix Tier 2

Retiree Notes: Winter 2025

Concerns grow over nominee to lead Medicare and Medicaid

Donald Trump has nominated Mehmet Oz—more commonly known by his TV moniker “Dr.

Retiree Notes: Winter 2025

Landmark legislation ends unfair Social Security penalties for public employees

After year upon year of an intensive grassroots lobbying campaign, in the final days of 2024, the U.S.

Landmark legislation ends unfair Social Security penalties for public employees

Thousands rally in Springfield to say “Fix Tier 2!”

Thousands of public service workers—members of AFSCME and our allied unions in the We Are One Illinois coalition—gathered in Springfield on Nov. 13 to demand lawmakers fix the broken and unfair Tier 2 pension system.

Thousands rally in Springfield to say “Fix Tier 2!”