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Retiree Insurance—Spring brings rate changes and employer training!

Posted on April 16, 2025 by In Employer News

Add or edit plan rates—submit changes by June 12 for July

For all plan rate changes to take effect July 1, 2025, please be sure to make changes prior to June 12, 2025. In 2024, the MTRS reenabled the Add Rates and Edit Rates buttons on the Insurance Rates screen in MyTRS after access was suspended in 2022 during a system upgrade. Granting employers …

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MyTRS Active Employee Reporting process issue and work-around

Posted on April 10, 2025 by In Employer News

Important Deduction Reporting Workaround

While in Edit mode on the Deduction Reports screen, if you add a comment and then click Apply or Save, the comment may not save correctly. The issue is causing the system to duplicate and overwrite previous comments.

Comments added to a deduction report in Edit mode are not saving correctly. To …

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Permanent MA residents exempt from Benefit Verification Process

Posted on January 09, 2025 by In Employer News
The MTRS will mail 1099-R tax forms to benefit recipients by January 31, 2025. We conduct a benefit verification process every other year to determine continued eligibility. While 2025 is a benefit verification year, we want to inform you of an important change to the process: benefit recipients who are PERMANENT RESIDENTS of Massachusetts are now …

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