William Culbert, Author at MTRS

In February during school vacation week, we will be presenting our popular "Ready for Retirement" seminar virtually. Please forward the message below to your MTRS members who are retiring within the next year. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide in letting our members know about the program—and if you'd like to attend, we'd …

We are pleased to announce a virtual session during February school vacation. This program is for MTRS members who are close to retirement and want more information about pre-retirement considerations and the retirement process and timeline.

"Ready for Retirement" topics include:

pre-retirement considerations,
retirement benefit options and calculations,
how to apply for retirement,
various issues …
Read more Virtual “Ready for Retirement” seminar to be held in February!

Two critical reminders when creating your 2026 calendar(s) in MyTRS:

Do not delete or overwrite any of your previous years' calendars. Please follow the exact steps in Tab 5 of Deduction Reporting in MyTRS to preserve previous payroll calendars, which our staff use to generate service credit reports for members.
1. The Start Date must be 01/01/2026
2. The Stop Date must …
  Read more Active member deduction reporting: Creating your 2026 payroll calendar(s) in MyTRS

Reminder: you have until December 11, 2025 to get plan price changes into MyTRS to have them processed for January 2026 deductions, taken in December. Since this is a process performed only twice a year, we strongly encourage you to utilize our training resources:

Author: William Culbert

Virtual “Ready for Retirement” seminar to be held in February–help us spread the news!

Virtual “Ready for Retirement” seminar to be held in February!

"Ready for Retirement" topics include:

Active member deduction reporting: Creating your 2026 payroll calendar(s) in MyTRS

Two critical reminders when creating your 2026 calendar(s) in MyTRS:

Retiree insurance winter 2025-2026 second reminder—last call!