June 2025: Monthly News Wrap

NYCDCC Retirees and Surviving Spouses: You may have already received, or will soon be receiving a mailing from the NYCDCC Benefit Funds requiring you to complete and sign an affidavit attesting to the fact that you are the rightful individual receiving your retirement benefits. This process is occasionally undertaken by the Pension Plan to prevent fraud by confirming that our participants are alive and therefore eligible to continue receiving benefits. Please note that completing and returning this form is MANDATORY.

On Thursday, June 12th, the Board of Trustees celebrated the twenty-five recipients of the Charles Johnson Jr. Memorial Scholarship at a luncheon in Manhattan.

This year’s luncheon highlighted the students’ range of achievements, including their community service, extracurricular leadership, and dedication to their studies. Several members of the Board of Trustees spoke, offering words of encouragement and excitement to the college-bound students, as well as their parents. The celebration was a great example of the positive impacts the NYCDCC has in our communities and the bright future it looks to build.

As an NYCDCC member, your hard work helps build financial security for you and your family in the form of pension benefits, annuity benefits, and savings. However, these assets can make members – especially retirees and older members –targets for exploitation, scams, and fraud. With this in mind, the Fund Office would like to share some information with you about elder financial abuse so that you may better protect your hard-earned benefits, your loved ones, and your future.

Elder financial abuse occurs when someone takes or misuses another person’s money (or assets) for their own personal benefit. One common example is online or telephone fraud, where a scammer reaches out to an individual claiming to be someone they are not. 

June is National Cancer Survivor Month, and the Fund Office would like to honor all the NYCDCC families who have been and continue to be affected by cancer diagnoses. Whether you’re a patient, caregiver, family member, or friend, cancer presents many challenges and difficult emotions. With this in mind, we would like to highlight the NYCDCC Welfare Fund’s partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center through MSK Direct.

MSK Direct is a benefit for NYCDCC Welfare Fund participants that gives members and their dependents high quality cancer services for screening and prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and life after cancer for both adults and pediatric patients.

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