Our phone service has been restored after a brief outage. Feel free to call us at (781) 272-1000 or (800) 342-3792, or reach out to us via email or on Facebook.

Download the Photo ID Schedule for September – October 2020

Para leer en inglés o portugués, haga clic aquí. 

Todos los obreros deben tener una tarjeta de identificación válida para continuar trabajando — y hacemos fácil renovar su tarjeta. 

Nuestras sesiones de foto seguras y remotas han vuelto, en locales a lo largo del estado donde puede actualizar su información y tomar una foto nueva. Sólo tiene que traer su licencia, pasaporte, u otro modo de identificación. En pocos minutos, será listo.

Antes de llegar, recuerde los siguientes documentos y información: 

1. Tarjeta de miembro LIUNA o recibo con su número de miembro
2. Uno de los siguientes: Registro de naturalización, papeles inmigrantes, registro militar, pasaporte, licencia de conducir, tarjeta de identificación del estado, o tarjeta de seguro social
3. Debe saber su número de seguro social

Por favor recuerde que las máscaras son mandatorias para todos los participantes. Si no lleva máscara, no se permitirá en el edificio para renovar su tarjeta. 

Encuentre una sesión cerca para empezar: 

Local 473 – Location: 264 West Housatonic Street, Pittsfield, Ma

lunes, 28 de septiembre – 4pm to 8pm

martes, 29 de septiembre – 4pm to 8pm

Local 1421 – Location: 20 Carter Street, REAR, Tewksbury, Ma

lunes, 19 de octubre – 9am to 2pm

martes, 20 de octubre – 9am to 2pm

miércoles, 21 de octubre – 3pm to 7pm

jueves, 22 de octubre – 3pm to 7pm

viernes, 23 de octubre – 10am to 5pm

sábado, 24 de octubre – 9am to 2pm

Local 668 – 161 Londonderry Turnpike, Hooksett, NH

miércoles, 30 de septiembre – 3pm to 7pm

Local 609 – 3 Pierce Street, Framingham, Massachusetts

martes, 13 de octubre – 11am to 6pm

miércoles, 14 de octubre – 11am to 6pm

jueves, 15 de octubre – 11am to 6pm

viernes, 16 de octubre – 11am to 6pm

sábado, 17 de octubre – 7am to 12pm

• Your July 1, 2020 eligibility is based on hours worked in the qualifying period of 04/01/2019 – 03/31/2020.
• If you are short 40 hours or less for Plan A or Plan B, you can self-pay the contributions for the remaining hours to retain eligibility. 
• For the July 1, 2020 period only, if you are short 80 hours or less for Plan A coverage only due to loss of work during the COVID-19 emergency period, you can self-pay contributions to retain eligibility. 

• If you were unable to work due to a total disability during the qualifying period, you may be eligible for up to 26 weeks of disability credits to retain your Health & Welfare eligibility. You must have your physician submit a letter to the Fund indicating the dates that you were totally disabled and unable to work.

• You may be eligible to continue coverage under COBRA. If you lost coverage July 1, a COBRA election form including the current rates was sent to you by both regular and certified mail.  If your coverage has ended and you did not receive information regarding COBRA Continuation coverage, please contact the Fund office to make sure that we have your correct mailing address on file.

• If you are a Retiree, and your coverage drops to Plan B for your last eligibility period, you may be eligible to self-pay the contributions up to 300 hours to keep Plan A. You must be collecting a Pension from the Funds and have attained Plan B coverage from active employment.

Massachusetts courthouses will remain closed to the general public until at least July 1, 2020, except for emergencies. The Trial Court departments have issued standing orders and guidelines specifying what constitutes an emergency matter in that particular court and have posted all such orders and guidelines on the Court System Response to COVID-19 webpage.

The courts are conducting court business virtually where it is practicable to do so.

All jury trials, in both criminal and civil cases, are continued to a date no earlier than September 8, 2020. 

All bench trials in civil cases are continued to a date no earlier than July 1, 2020 unless the trial may be conducted virtually. All bench trial in criminal cases are continued to a date no earlier than July 1, 2020 unless the trial may be conducted virtually by agreement of the parties and the trial judge.

Your attorney will contact you when notified by the court of any hearing dates.

The Legal Service Fund continues to operate with staff both physically present in the Burlington office and working remotely.  All phone calls to our main office number at 781-273-3939 are answered by a staff member with access to files from 9:00 to 5:00 every day. At all other times, calls to this number are answered by our answering service.  All telephone messages are responded to by the responsible attorney.

The attorneys can also be reached by emailing directly as follows:

Mary P. O’Malley – momalley@mllsf.org
Robert Cassesso – rcassesso@mllsf.org
Jennifer L.M. Fearnley – jfearnley@mllsf.org
John A. Rice – jrice@mllsf.org
Michael J. Riley – mriley@mllsf.org

We continue to open new cases. We are not, however, currently open to the public until further notice. For both your safety and that of our employees, please contact your attorney directly regarding individual concerns.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

The Massachusetts Laborers’ Benefit Funds office is taking steps to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus.

Effective Thursday, March 12, 2020 the Fund Office will be suspending all walk-ins and appointments to the Burlington office for the foreseeable future.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience.

If you need further assistance, please call (781) 272-1000.

La oficina de Fondos de Beneficios para Trabajadores de Massachusetts está tomando medidas para prevenir la propagación del Coronavirus.

A partir del jueves 12 de marzo de 2020, todas las visitas y citas previamente programadas a la oficina de Burlington estaran suspendidas hasta el futuro previsible.

Lamentamos la incoveniencia.

Si necesita más ayuda, llame al (781) 272-1000