Southern Fairfield County Retired Teacher Association SFCRTA - Southern Fairfield County Retired Teacher Association

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Southern Fairfield County Retired Teachers Association

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Do you remember when you had “Permanent” certification and a guaranteed COLA for your pension?  Help us help you to maintain your benefits in the future. Your valued membership has allowed us to push forward strong Legislative support for retired teacher’s benefits.

Please help us continue this effort in your behalf guaranteeing your future retirement funding and improved medical benefits and costs.

Our membership is on an annual basis and we hope you will continue to support our efforts.

Please visit http://www.sfcrta.org to keep yourself up to date with our progress.

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Retirement Information

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SFCRTA

304 Main Avenue

Norwalk,CT 06851-6167

Are you not yet a member?

Please read this letter to see how we represent you

To Fellow Retirees:

I thoroughly love being retired; however, it is not without its challenges.

What I love most is time:  to get up a little later in the morning, to travel off-peak, to do errands off-peak, to design a day as I think best, to have other days to do all the things I used to do on Saturday and/or Sunday.

However, there are things that I find frustrating:

On an already reduced salary, I have to fund almost 100% of my health insurance premiums. As is the case in manyConnecticutteaching districts, the teachers’ contract in my town had no language about retiree insurance benefits. Except for the $110 per month distributed byConnecticuttoGreenwich(my last employer), all of an increasingly more expensive insurance plan is my responsibility.  Where does that $110 come from? It comes from the HIPA (Health Insurance Premium Account), which stems from the required additional 1% and then 1.25% that I paid during my active years, and which current active teachers continue to put in.  Oh, yes, the State ofConnecticutcontributes $34 per month of that $110, although they had to “borrow” it from the HIPA account for the last two years. No word on repayment that I know of.  When I tell people outside of education that I pay for my own health insurance, I find their reactions range from incredulity to being flabbergasted.  I retired at age 57, so I have a few more years to go before I can (hopefully) get on Medicare.  Try telling someone that some teachers don’t even qualify for Medicare because we don’t pay in to Social Security, and we don’t have a spouse, or our spouse did not pay into Social Security either. Unless we were hired after 1986 and paid into Medicare, some of us will be subject to funding our own insurance at the premium paid by our last employer (or paying a much higher premium to Medicare) over the rest of our life.

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Helpful Information

Teacher Retirement Board: 1-860-241-8404 or 8402

Why Join Us?

Protecting Your Retirement Benefits

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Why are we so passionate in our responsibility to you?

Because:

• Post 1992 Retirees lost over $100,000 in lifetime COLA benefits. (We WON BACK)
• Insurance costs are rising faster than inflation.
• Our pension liabilities have gown over $2,000,000,000 during the past two years to above $5,200,000,000.
• BONDING/COLA $s PAYS OFF DEBT (WE WON)
• Our pension checks will exceed $1 Billion this year alone
• There is $13.4 Billion in our pension system today

• SYSTEM WILL SOON HAVE $15 BILLION (WE WON)

The Southern Fairfield County Retired Teacher Association:

• Has over 1,500 retired teacher members
• Is designed to protect your pension, insurance, and cost of living benefits
• Leads Statewide Committee on insurance
• And, we make your concerns known to the state legislature as well as the Teacher Retirement Board
• We must join together to protect our benefits or we could lose them

A Better Organization:

• Represents only retired teachers
• Attends all Teacher Retirement Board meetings in Hartford
• Created 1st retired teacher website
• Produced 1st commercials on issues related to retired teachers
• Supports Politicians that back our concerns
• Succeeded in having State Legislature pass our designed HB6141
• Give $2,500 worth of scholarships a year
• Affiliated with Association of Retired Teacher of Connecticut

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