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If you’ve just started your first teaching job, the experience is likely to be both exciting and overwhelming. But now that you’ve decorated the bulletin boards, copied your handouts, stacked the books and met your students, you should also take a little time to think about your own life and career. That means becoming familiar with one of the key benefits of a public school teaching job – your future pension.
The Internal Revenue Service and the NYS Department of State Division of Consumer Protection recently issued new warnings to consumers about scammers attempting to steal personal or financial information. NYSTRS has multiple security measures in place to help safeguard your pension information, but we urge you to be vigilant in protecting yourself.
Elizabeth A. Chetney, a teacher in the Baldwinsville Central School District, was appointed to the NYSTRS Board to fill a teacher member opening.
A new study debunks the myth that Baby Boomers are to blame for the financial shortfall facing Social Security and points out that the root of the problem was the failure to build up a trust fund – like NYSTRS and other well-funded defined benefit pension plans have done – before paying the first retirees.
Track Your Retirement Online! Follow the step-by-step progress of your retirement processing in MyNYSTRS. Login and visit the Track Progress of Retirement page.
Read The Path to Retirement to learn how the System processes retirement applications. Be sure to also read Discovering Retirement – a guide to adjusting to retirement and the Retired Members' Handbook – a comprehensive resource for NYSTRS retirees.