Live Webinars Scheduled for November
ETF is offering a series of 30-minute, live, interactive webinars designed to increase your understanding of Wisconsin Retirement System benefits. Individuals can also ask questions at the end of these sessions.
5 Basic Steps to Retirement Consider this webinar your quick reference guide to starting the retirement process within the next 12 monhts. It’ll review: choosing a termination date, how to request a retirement estimate- and how to read and understand it. It’ll also cover how to schedule a retirement appointment and how to submit the retirement application.
- Wed. Nov 4, 2015 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- Mon. Nov 9, 2015 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- Thu. Nov 12, 2015 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
- Mon. Nov 16 2015 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Additional Contributions Find out how making additional contributions to your WRS account can potentially increase your retirement. This webinar also provides examples of how contributions grow over time with interest, how to pay additional contributions, etc.
- Tue. Nov 10, 2015 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- Wed. Nov 11, 2015 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
- Thu. Nov 19, 2015 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Choosing When to Retire This webinar will focus primarily on choosing your optimal termination and WRS benefit effective dates. The focus will include not only the “December versus January” decision, but also how retirement timing at any point during the year can affect your retirement annuity amount and other employee retirement benefits.
- Thu. Nov 5, 2015 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
- Tue. Nov 10, 2015 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
- Tue. Nov 17, 2015 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
- Tue. Nov 24, 2015 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
How to Use ETF’s Online Calculator to Estimate a Retirement Benefit ETF’s online retirement calculator, one of the most-used tools on ETF’s website, allows you to calculate an unofficial projection of your WRS retirement benefit at any point in the future. This webinar will cover where to find and how to use the calculator, specific information required for data entry (e.g., desired retirement date, spouse or partner’s birthdate, etc.) and how to interpret the results.
- Wed. Nov 4, 2015 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
- Mon. Nov 16, 2015 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- Wed. Nov 18, 2015 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Variable Fund This webinar will discuss the Variable Fund – what it is, how it differs from the Core Fund, and the affect participation in this fund may have on your retirement benefit calculations. It will also discuss how to elect to participate in the Variable Fund, how to cancel participation, and how the timing of these decisions may affect your Wisconsin Retirement System benefits.
- Mon. Nov 9, 2015 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
- Fri. Nov 13, 2015 12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
- Tue. Nov 17, 2015 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Please contact Human Resources at (920) 465-2390 or payrollandbenefits@uwgb.edu with any questions.