Newsletter - April 2023

Newsletter – April 2023

TRB Information CORE-CT The Teachers’ Retirement Board staff continues a project to migrate everything to a new cloud-based management system the State has adopted. CORE CT is Connecticut state government’s integrated human resources, payroll, and financial system that will replace the more than twenty-year-old system the TRB has been using. It produces the monthly pension…

Newsletter – February 2023

Health Insurance Tips Any retired members who have questions or concerns they have not been able to resolve with UHC are asked to contact the TRB Escalation Team for support by email at: HealthInsurance.TRB@ct.gov OptumRx– the pharmacy plan that is identical for both the Supplement and Advantage plans Monitor your prescriptions carefully because there seem…

Newsletter – December 2022

Happy Holidays Elections- several types We have finished with two elections and have one more to go. Political elections are now behind us and by the time you receive this edition of the newsletter, vote counts should be announced everywhere. Several races in our area, as well as nationally, were extremely close, which meant recounts…

Newsletter – September 2022

Happy Fall Membership Meeting This Newsletter edition is going out only to all current SFCRTA members and includes an invitation to our Fall Membership meeting to be held on Oct. 12, 2022, at beautiful Rolling Hills Country Club in Wilton. Here are a few things to note about the invitation. The charge for current members…

Newsletter – July 2022

Happy Summer! Money Matters COLA You may have heard of other retirement systems that are defined by tiers that delineate many aspects of a retiree’s benefits. While our system is not like this, it turns out that a Teachers’ Retirement System member’s cost of living adjustment (COLA) benefit is determined by a tier that includes…