Author: William Culbert

The MTRS has temporarily hidden the Add Rates and Edit Rates buttons on the Insurance Rates screen in MyTRS. We are still working with our vendor to develop validations to prevent plan price changes from triggering billing errors. Thus, employers cannot add plan rates or edit plan rates at this …

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The MTRS has identified an issue with the plan "stop date," which is preventing users from switching or ending a retiree's health plan.

If you have any questions, please send them to Read more Retiree Insurance—Individual rate change functions are temporarily unavailable

The MTRS has established reporting deadlines for 2021 and 2022. On April 6, 2023 we sent the following message to all the superintendents in Massachusetts, as a first notice. Please review the message below:

Dear Superintendents and Directors, As you know, the past few years have been difficult for all of us due …

Read more MTRS has alerted superintendents of new deduction reporting deadlines

This email is to inform you of an important change to retirement-eligible pay ("regular compensation") for members receiving workers' compensation. It should be shared with employees who process payroll and your affected MTRS members. After a lengthy appeal process, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made a final ruling that supplemental payments, such as sick or vacation …

Read more Stop deductions on supplemental pay to employees on workers’ compensation