The CWA Local 1180 Security Benefits, Retirees Benefits, Education Benefits, Legal Benefits and Member’s Annuity Benefits Funds are separate trusts maintained for the purpose of providing covered members with supplemental health, education benefits, legal services benefits and annuity benefits. The supplemental health benefits provided by the Security Benefits Fund are intended to augment basic health insurance and hospitalization benefits administered by employers.

The Funds are separately administered by Boards of Trustees.

The benefits provided by these Funds are the result of collective bargaining agreements between the City of New York and related public employers, the Board of Education of the City of New York, the State of New York and the Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO on behalf of its Local 1180. These collective bargaining agreements provide for annual contributions to the Funds on behalf of each employee in a covered title in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

The benefits provided by the Funds are made possible by the Funds’ assets which are derived from employer contributions. All of the Funds’ assets are used to provide your benefits and to defray reasonable administrative expenses.