Pension Call Tuesday.
The seats are starting to fill up on the PREA bus to Springfield on May 2nd. Our schedule is to meet with Park Ridge Senator Dan Kotowski. Those of us who live in other legislative districts will also fan out to meet with their home legislators. Then we will picnic on the IEA headquarter’s lawn.
IEA Vice-president Kathi Griffith has been very helpful in making arrangements.
This week’s reported comments by TRS Executive Director Richard Ingram have caused great anxiety among teachers, both active and retired.
His view that benefits might have to be reduced to retired teachers is unacceptable.
Let your legislator know that:
- Teachers have always met their obligations to TRS.
- Teachers receive no Social Security. TRS is our only secure benefit when we retire. It must remain secure.
- The state must, as its constitutional duty, meet its obligations to present and future TRS annuitants.