When an employee turns 65 years of age and is eligible for Medicare, they should enroll in the Medicare Advantage PPO plan.
- If you turn 65 and are eligible for Medicare, please send a copy of your Medicare Card to the Benefits Office using the contact information on the right side of this page, so you can be enrolled into the city’s Medicare Retiree Health Plan.
- If you turn 65 and are not eligible for Medicare, but your spouse is eligible for Medicare; please call 1-800-772-1213 or visit www.socialsecurity.gov to determine what options are available to you.
Failure to enroll into Part B when you reach age 65 will result in your being charged a 10% penalty (by Social Security) for every 12 month period you did not enroll and your enrollment would be delayed until July 1st of the year you enrolled during January through March. This can also result in increased payments for medical services while you await your effective enrollment into Part B in July.
2025 Rates for Medicare Retirees
2025-Rates-Active-and-Retirees.xlsx(XLSX, 94KB)
2025-Medicare-Retiree-Rate-Sheet.pdf(PDF, 76KB)
2025-Retriee-Dental_Vision-Rate-Sheet.xlsx(XLSX, 15KB)
Working retirees
Because eligible retirees pay little or nothing for their health care, if working retirees are eligible for benefits with their current employer, they must leave the city’s plan and elect for coverage for themselves and their spouse with their current employer.
However, should the retiree lose coverage or leave that job, they can return to the city’s plan within a 30 day time period.
Eligibility for retiree benefits
An eligible Retiree is one:
- Who has retired and is receiving pension disbursements from the City of Fort Worth Retirement System; or
- Retiree’s spouse, common law spouse, child of an enrolled retiree who is a natural child, foster child, stepchild, grandchild, domestic partner’s child, legally adopted child or child under the retiree’s legal guardianship or custodianship.
Dependent certification
In order to add your dependents to your plan, you need to supply Human Resources with the required forms of proof of relationship status. Unless otherwise indicated, all documentation should be originals.
Below are the documents required for each dependent type:
Spouse
- Marriage license
- Tax return from the previous year
- If common law: Declaration and Registration of Informal Marriage available at the county clerk’s office
Dependent children
- Birth certificates listing employee, spouse or domestic partner as parent
- If applicable:
- Adoption agreement,
- Legal guardianship documents
- Divorce decree documents showing the dependent
- Qualified Medical Court Support Order
Disabled Dependent Children age 26 or over
- A completed Dependent Eligibility Questionnaire verifying an ongoing total disability.
- Written documentation from a physician verifying an ongoing disability may be required.