September 26, 2025
A notice-of-election for the Taunton Retirement Board was mailed to all members in July 2025. Nomination papers were due by 12 noon on August 29, 2025. As of that deadline, the only nomination paper received was for incumbent board member Thomas A. Bernier.
At a meeting of the Taunton Retirement Board on September 24, 2025, the board trustees determined pursuant to MGL Chapter 32 and state regulations 840 CMR 7.05 that only one candidate was nominated and the board declared Thomas... Read Full Article
July 8, 2025
TO THE ACTIVE & RETIRED MEMBERS OF THE CITY OF TAUNTON RETIREMENT SYSTEM:
The term of current elected member Thomas A. Bernier will expire on December 31, 2025. Therefore, an election will be scheduled for Tuesday, December 2, 2025 for the purpose of electing one board member to serve on the five-member Taunton Retirement Board for a term of three (3) years, said term to run from January 1, 2026 thru December 31, 2028.
All holding membership in the Taunton Retirement System... Read Full Article
June 24, 2025
If you are an active member of the Taunton Retirement System, meet the Chapter 32, Section 1 definition of veteran and, for any reason, have not entered into an agreement with the retirement board to purchase your military service time, or, you have entered an agreement, but have not completed the purchase, please read this notice closely as there has been significant changes to veterans’ buybacks signed into law. Passed by the Legislature and signed by Governor Healey on August 8, 2024,... Read Full Article
May 16, 2025
The Taunton Retirement Board has approved a 3% COLA effective July 1, 2025 for all eligible retirees and survivors of the system who retired on or before June 30, 2024. At its Feb. 26, 2025 board meeting, member Barry J. Amaral made the motion to approve, seconded by member Gill E. Enos and the vote was unanimous to provide retirees and survivors with the increase. Other members of the board voting in favor were Chairman Dennis M. Smith, Thomas A. Bernier and Ian D. Fortes. ... Read Full Article
January 29, 2025
Open enrollment will start Monday 2/24/2025 thru Monday 3/24/2025 with an effective date of 7/1/2025.
January 7, 2025
On January 5, 2025, President Biden signed into law The Social Security Fairness Act, which repealed the Windfall Elimination Provision (“WEP”) and Government Pension Offset (“GPO”) provisions of Social Security. This law has a retroactive effective date of January 1, 2024, which means that the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) will be required to recalculate benefits for anyone impacted during 2024.
The WEP and GPO have negatively impacted thousands of Massachusetts public employees and... Read Full Article
October 24, 2024
The Taunton Retirement Board (“Board”) is requesting qualification statements from recognized law firms and individual attorneys within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts interested in providing legal services for matters involving the City of Taunton Retirement System (“System”).
September 12, 2024
To: All Active Members
Date: September 2024
Re: Important information on Veterans’ buybacks
If you are an active member of the retirement system, meet the Chapter 32, Section 1 definition of veteran and, for any reason, have not entered into an agreement with the retirement board to purchase your military service time, or, you have entered an agreement, but have not completed the purchase, please read this notice closely as there has been significant changes to veterans’ buybacks... Read Full Article
March 26, 2024
The Taunton Retirement Board has approved a 3% COLA effective July 1, 2024 for all eligible retirees and survivors of the system who retired on or before June 30, 2023. At its Feb. 28, 2024 board meeting, member Barry J. Amaral made the motion to approve, seconded by member Thomas A. Bernier and the vote was unanimous to provide retirees and survivors with the increase. Other members of the board voting in favor were Chairman Dennis M. Smith, Gill E. Enos and Ian D. Fortes. ... Read Full Article
January 24, 2024
Open Enrollment for City of Taunton retirees/survivors will start on Monday, February 26, 2024 at 8 a.m. and end on Tuesday, March 26, 2024 at 7 p.m. Any changes done during Open Enrollment will be effective July 1, 2024. There will be two informational meetings for Open Enrollment on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 (in person at City Hall) and Tuesday, March 19, 2024 (Zoom). Times for these meetings will be updated shortly.
