Current issue: Retired teachers chapter news

Changing banks for your EFT retirement payments

May 24, 2012

If you’re planning to choose a new bank to electronically receive your monthly retirement payments from the TRS, keep in mind the following so that you can avoid suspension of your Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT).

UFT to use new automated dues refund system for retirees working for the DOE

May 24, 2012

If you return to work for the Department of Education and continue to collect a pension, you will find that you are paying union dues both as a retiree (from your pension check) and as an employee (from your payroll check).

Volunteering is in our DNA

May 24, 2012

Why do UFT retirees volunteer in such large numbers? Part of it is a call to duty by UFT President Michael Mulgrew who refers to us as “The Daytime Union.” Another part is the old semi-religious concept of “vocation” which in Latin means “a calling” to serve others. Teaching is a kind of vocation. We are called to serve in the transmission of culture from one generation to the next.