Help Retired NYC Workers Protect the Healthcare We Earned

For decades, New York City Retirees dedicated their lives to serving the public. Police officers, firefighters, teachers, EMS personnel, sanitation, corrections and countless other city workers spent their careers protecting, educating, and supporting our communities. We fulfilled our commitment to the city, and now we are asking that the city honor its commitment to us.

I was named as the primary contact for the lawsuit that affects us all. We have created an LLC in order to transfer funds from here to the lawyer, etc. With weekly accounting. These funds will go to the attorney for legal fees incurred trying to keep our health insurance.

Today, retired city workers face a serious threat to the healthcare coverage we were promised. A group is advocating for changes that could force retirees back into an outdated healthcare plan that will not adequately serve the needs of those living outside of New York State.

Many retirees relocated to be closer to family, seek affordable housing, or address health concerns. Many retirees also have children attending colleges outside of New York State and would have to pay for schools healthcare if this change goes through, since the new plan eliminates this need as it is a national plan. The proposed changes will significantly reduce access to doctors, specialists, and medical services for thousands of retired public servants who depend on comprehensive national coverage.

This fight is about more than healthcare. It is about keeping promises made to the men and women who spent their careers serving New York City. No retiree should be forced to choose between affordable healthcare and access to the medical providers that they desperately need.

The funds raised will help support advocacy efforts, legal expenses and organizing efforts to protect retiree healthcare benefits, specifically the new NYCE PPO plan. This new plan went into effect on 1/1/26 and has been nothing short of amazing giving NYC retirees access to doctors, specialists and therapy that we did not have with the former Emblem Health CBP plan.

Every contribution, no matter the size, helps us to stand together and ensure that retired city workers receive the healthcare coverage they earned through years of dedicated service. We cannot afford to have this new plan taken from us after years of suffering with little to no access to doctors with the Emblem CBP plan.

Please donate if you can. We won once and we can do it again, together. This go fund me is being formed in order to preserve the new NYCE PPO plan.

Together, we can protect the healthcare benefits that generations of city workers worked a lifetime to earn.