Retirement counseling scheduled for March

January 25, 2011

University Relations

Regional retirement counselor, Pamela Couzin, with the State of Alaska Division of Retirement & Benefits will be on campus March 7 – 10.  She will be providing individual retirement counseling appointments and two evening sessions on the retirement process.

Retirement counseling sessions are beneficial for many reasons.  Employees can meet and discuss how retirement benefits are calculated and when the employee can and should retire.  During the counseling appointments, employees can learn more about the medical options available as a retiree and how Medicare and social security will play a part in their retirement.  Employees can find out about claiming outside service, military service credit and/or purchasing temporary service to potentially increase their retirement benefit.  If employees have indebtedness to the retirement system they could discuss the benefits of buying back service time or paying back the indebtedness.  It’s possible that there are employees who have outside service who would be eligible to claim that service which could benefit them monetarily at retirement.

We strongly encourage both new and veteran employees to schedule meetings to discuss their current benefits and future retirement.  It is recommended that employees contact the Division of Retirement & Benefits to request retirement projections prior to their counseling appointments.  The contact number for the State of Alaska Division of Retirement & Benefits is 1-800-821-2251.

Individual sessions will be scheduled by appointment only.  Please contact HR at 474-7700 to schedule your individual appointment.  Appointments fill up quickly, so please call as soon as possible to secure your session.

Two evening retirement processing seminars will also be presented.  One seminar will be for the Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) and one for the Teachers Retirement System (TRS).  Employees must register on-line to enroll in the session.  Please copy and paste the link provided below in your browser to directly access the on-line registration.

PERS Retirement Process Evening Session
Wednesday, March 9
Rasmuson Library Media Classroom, Room 340
6 - 8 p.m.
To enroll:  https://www2.retben.state.ak.us/seminarenrollment/schedule.asp?system=PERS

TRS Retirement Process Evening Session
Thursday, March 10
Rasmuson Library Media Classroom, Room 340
6 – 8 p.m.
To enroll:  https://www2.retben.state.ak.us/seminarenrollment/schedule.asp?system=TRS