TRTA Members Take Message Directly to Legislators
Improve TRS Fund and Protect Health Care! TRTA staff and volunteer members are doing a great job representing you in the Texas Legislature. TRTA is focused on getting our legislative agenda passed this session. Here are some of the key points we focused on this week. TRTA met with 65 legislators in both the Senate […]
TRS Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D Follow Up
TRTA continues to receive calls and emails about the new TRS Aetna Medicare Advantage plan as well as the Express Scripts Medicare Part D prescription plan. In this Inside Line, we are sharing a few additional TRS resources with you as you continue to assess your medical care needs. Aetna Medicare Advantage TRTA has received […]
TRTA Update September 15, 2012
TRTA Helps Lead a United Front Defending TRS Benefits Associations Testify in Favor of Maintaining Pension and Health Care Benefits The House Pensions, Investments, and Financial Services Committee (PIFS) met this week to discuss their interim charge on the Teacher Retirement System and other statewide, county, and municipal retirement programs. TRTA expected an attack on […]
Important Announcement about Medicare Advantage
TRTA Working to Help You! The Texas Retired Teachers Association (TRTA) has coordinated with the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and Aetna to assist TRS members eligible for the new TRS Medicare Advantage plan. We have heard from many of our members concerned about whether or not their doctors will take the new plan. […]
TRS Announces Medicare Advantage Seminars
See Below for Dates and Locations Near You! The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) has released information about the upcoming Medicare Advantage seminars. TRTA members and all TRS-Care participants can make plans now to attend one of these information sessions. TRS has assured us that they will do all they can to provide you […]
TRS Releases More Information on Medicare Advantage Programs
(Your next packet of information is in the mail, or you may read it now by clicking on the links provided by TRTA) TRS-Care 2 Enrollees ||| TRS-Care 3 Enrollees The incorporation of the new TRS Medicare Advantage Plan is a big change for many TRS-Care participants. Some TRTA members eagerly are awaiting the cost […]
TRS Posts Official Information on New Prescription and Medicare Advantage Plans
The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) has posted the official information resource about the new prescription drug and Medicare Advantage plans on their web site. You can see this document by clicking here. TRS retirees will be receiving this information brochure in the mail very soon. In addition, TRS is working on a schedule […]
TRS Meeting Underway: Pension Benefit Study, TRS-Care Among Many Issues Being Discussed
Update on TRS-Care Medicare Advantage Option Many TRTA members expressed concern and shared questions with us regarding the potential changes to the TRS-Care health insurance program. Betsey Jones, Director of Health Care Policy for TRS, was kind enough to review a list of those questions compiled by TRTA and respond to them. What are the […]
TRS Retiree Advisory Committee Meeting Provides Background on How Changes May Improve Both Benefits and TRS-Care Funding
The TRS Retiree Advisory Committee (a group of active and retired TRS members that advises TRS on benefits issues and presents concerns) met to discuss changes and potential options for modifying the TRS-Care health insurance program. Bill Hickman, a TRS consultant from Gabriel, Roeder, Smith & Company, reported that projections show the TRS-Care program will […]
TRS Pension and Health Care Discussion Underway
Today, during the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), board members began discussing plans for two studies that will be undertaken in the coming months. The Texas Legislature charged TRS with studying the fiscal and actuarial impacts of plan design change for the pension trust fund and […]