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GIC Participating Municipalities

The following municipalities, school districts, and collaboratives are participating in GIC benefits for municipal health and/or retiree dental coverage.

Participating municipalities that offer GIC health insurance

Cities

  • Framingham (effective 7/1/14)
  • Gloucester (effective 1/1/14)
  • Haverhill (effective 7/1/17)
  • Lawrence (effective 11/1/10)
  • Lowell (effective 7/1/12)
  • Medford (effective 1/1/12)
  • Melrose (effective 7/1/09)
  • Northampton (effective 1/1/14)
  • Salem (effective 7/1/12)
  • Somerville (effective 1/1/12)
  • Springfield (effective 1/1/07)

Towns

  • Arlington (effective 1/1/12)
  • Ashland (effective 7/1/15)
  • Bedford (effective 7/1/12)
  • Brookline (effective 7/1/10)
  • East Bridgewater (effective 7/1/14)
  • Easton (effective 7/1/15)
  • Groveland (effective 7/1/08)
  • Hingham (effective 7/1/17)
  • Holbrook (effective 7/1/08)
  • Lexington (effective 7/1/12)
  • Lynnfield (effective 11/1/11)
  • Marblehead (effective 7/1/12)
  • Middleborough (effective 7/1/14)
  • Millis (effective 7/1/08)
  • Monson (effective 7/1/12)
  • North Andover (effective 1/1/14)
  • Norwood (effective 7/1/09)
  • Randolph (effective 7/1/09)
  • Stoneham (effective 7/1/09)
  • Sudbury (effective 7/1/12)
  • Swampscott (effective 7/1/09)
  • Wakefield (effective 1/1/12)
  • Watertown (effective 7/1/09)
  • Weston (effective 7/1/09)
  • Westwood (effective 7/1/15)
  • Weymouth (effective 7/1/09)
  • Winthrop (effective 7/1/08)

School districts and union collaboratives

  • Blue Hills Vocational School District (effective 7/1/09)
  • Gill-Montague Regional School District (effective 7/1/08)
  • Hawlemont Regional School District (effective 7/1/08)
  • LABBB Collaborative (effective 7/1/15)
  • Mohawk Trail Regional School District (effective 7/1/08)
  • Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational School District (effective 7/1/12)
  • Pentucket Regional School District (effective 7/1/16)
  • Shore Educational Collaborative (effective 7/1/24)

Regional districts

  • Nashoba Valley Regional Dispatch District (effective 7/1/13)
  • South Essex Sewerage District (effective 1/1/15)

Charter schools & planning councils and commissions and non-union collaboratives (eligible for all GIC benefits)

  • Bi-County Collaborative (effective 7/1/2019)
  • Merrimack Valley Planning Commission (effective 7/1/10)
  • Old Colony Planning Council (effective 7/1/08)
  • Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (effective 7/1/09)
  • Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District (effective 7/1/08)
  • Valley Collaborative (effective 7/1/15)

Participating municipalities that offer GIC retiree dental plan

If your Municipality is not listed, you are not eligible for GIC Retiree Dental benefits. Contact your Municipal Benefits Office for additional information.

The following municipalities offer the GIC Retiree Dental Plan

Cities

  • Melrose

Towns

  • Ashland
  • Bedford
  • Brookline
  • Holbrook
  • Marblehead
  • Middleborough
  • Millis
  • North Andover
  • Randolph
  • Swampscott
  • Weston
  • Westwood

School Districts

  • Northeast Regional Technical School

Retired Municipal Teachers (RMTs), view the list of participating municipalities eligible for GIC benefits.

Additional Resources

Open file,  The Process of Joining Municipal Health Insurance with the GIC

Contact   for GIC Participating Municipalities

Online

Recommended GIC online contact form 

Phone

Main Phone Call Group Insurance Commission, Main Phone at (617) 727-2310

M-F 8:45 a.m.-5 p.m.

TDD/TTY Call Group Insurance Commission, TDD/TTY at 711

Fax

Operations
Fiscal (617) 367-9874

Address

GIC Print Forms and Member Correspondence Mailing Address
PO Box 556, Randolph, MA 02368
Directions 
Street Address
John W. McCormack Building, 1 Ashburton Place, Suite 1413, Boston, MA 02108
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