Program Category: About Us
Plan summary
The Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System is a contributory retirement system governed by the Commonwealth's retirement law, Chapter 32 of the Massachusetts General Laws. The MTRS, which is the largest of the Commonwealth's 104 contributory retirement systems, provides retirement, disability and survivor benefits to Massachusetts teachers, administrators and their families.
The MTRS is a defined benefit retirement …
Regulations
Notice: While reasonable efforts have been made to assure the accuracy of this information, this is an unofficial version of the MTRS regulations, and is for informational use only. For the official, printed version, please contact the State Bookstore (see https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/bookstore/bookstore.htm for more information).
807 CMR Regulations
Our history and milestones
The MTRS, then known as the Teachers' Retirement Association, was established as part of Chapter 832 of the Acts of 1913, signed on June 19, 1913. The legislation had a tumultuous history: in 1911, a bill asking for enactment of a teachers' retirement system failed to pass the Legislature passed a resolve which asked the …