Employer News - MTRS

The Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System (MTRS) has been asked by the Pension Reserves Investment Management (PRIM) Board to assist them in the statewide election for a representative of the Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System to the PRIM Board. As you may know, active and retired members of our system are eligible to become candidates …

Upgrades to MyTRS

The MyTRS upgrades scheduled for installation on Friday, November 4th, starting at 6 pm, should improve deduction report processing speeds on Monday, November 7th. Please log off of MyTRS by 6 pm on Friday and do not log in to MyTRS until Monday, November 7th at 6 am.

What's changed?

Performance:

Most importantly, MyTRS now features …
Read more Active employee reporting—Improvements and changes to MyTRS deduction report processing

The new legislation, Chapter 134 of the Acts of 2022, allows eligible members who transferred into the MTRS from another Massachusetts contributory retirement system a final, one-time opportunity to make a definitive choice, either to:

participate in RetirementPlus, or,
opt-out of participating in RetirementPlus.

This new election period runs …

1) Important: Send all group insurance rate changes for January premiums by 12/02/2022 for on-time processing

The MTRS has temporarily hidden the Add Rates and Edit Rates buttons on the Insurance Rates screen in MyTRS. Over the last several months, we've noticed that some users were triggering a processing error, which required significant effort for MTRS staff to resolve for …

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Upgrades to MyTRS

What's changed?

1) Important: Send all group insurance rate changes for January premiums by 12/02/2022 for on-time processing