Join MNEA-Retired now to improve your retirement
later
 Do
you think that when your teaching career is over that membership
in MNEA is no longer relevant?
Not so. In addition to the continuation of liability protection
for substitute work, travel discounts, and many other money-saving
benefits that more than pay for retired membership, MNEA-Retired
does much on behalf of the retired member and the active member
who will someday become retired. Following are examples of
MNEA-R’s work:
- Carefully
monitors the Public School Retirement System and Public
Education Employee Retirement System in this time of economic
downturn.
- Lobbies
along with its national affiliate, NEA-Retired, to repeal
the offsets that reduce Social Security income for many
PSRS retired teachers.
- Sends
members and leaders to Jefferson City to lobby for legislation
that protects the interests of retired members.
Currently MNEA-Retired is also dealing with the problem of
unanticipated, significant premium increases in long-term
care insurance. MNEA-Retired held a meeting to address the
problem in June and participated in a conference call Oct.
29 with representatives of AARP, which has researched the
long-term care rate increase situation. State Representative
Jeanne Kirkton, on our behalf, communicated with the Missouri
Division of Insurance to assess the problem.
Currently the Missouri Division of Insurance has little authority
to evaluate and approve long-term care insurance filings.
As a result, MNEA’s Representative Assembly passed at
it’s fall meeting a new legislative plank that urges
the General Assembly to enact legislation directing the MDI
to provide regulatory oversight of all long-term care rate
increases filed in the Missouri.
Why should you join now, before retirement? Because now is
the time to attack the problems that retirees face—so
that by the time you retire solutions are in the works to
resolve these and other problems. MNEA-R needs your support
and your membership.
By C.T. Sharp, MNEA-Retired president
sb,
winter '09
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