{"id":309218,"date":"2026-07-29T21:56:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309218\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:56:30","slug":"public-service-retirees-call-for-healthcare-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/309218\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Retirees call for healthcare protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More spending cuts are expected soon at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered every agency to find savings of at least 2.5% ahead of next year without reducing services or cutting jobs.<\/p>\n<p>It came after the Mamdani administration delayed health care payments for retired city workers until December.<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Pizzitola, the president of the city&#8217;s Organization of Public Service Retirees, joined &#8220;The Rush Hour&#8221; on Wednesday to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More spending cuts are expected soon at City Hall. Mayor Zohran Mamdani ordered every agency to find savings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3110,25,9,24,55,54,12,56,2370,3111,27,200],"class_list":["post-309218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-annika-pergament","tag-app-top-stories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-the-rush-hour","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}