Category: Payroll & Benefits

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    Health Insurance Satisfaction Survey

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    Attention All Participants in the State of WI Group Health Insurance Program: Each year the Department of Employee Trust Funds (ETF) contracts with a survey vendor (Synovate) to conduct a health insurance satisfaction survey.  The survey is expected to begin on Thursday, March 3rd.  Randomly selected employees will be contacted via e-mail beginning this week.  The…

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    T. Rowe Price Webinars

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    T. Rowe Price, one of the investment companies in the UW TSA 403(b) Program, is sponsoring the following webinars: Financial Markets Update Thursday, March 10th at 12:00 noon Thursday, March 10th at 6:00 p.m. Retirement Investing From Beginning to End Wednesday, April 13th at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, April 14th at 10:00 a.m. You can watch the…

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    Budget Repair Bill Resources

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    Below are resources related to the Budget Repair Bill: * Office of State Employment Relations (OSER) Budget Repair Bill Questions & Answers: http://oser.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=7209 * UW-System Budget Repair Bill FAQs (pertaining to benefits): http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/benefits/repairbillfaq.pdf * UW-System Budget Repair Bill website: http://www.uwsa.edu/hr/benefits/budgetbill.htm * Estimator that employees can use to determine the increase to their Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS) contributions and health insurance…

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    ETF Effective Interest Rates Announced

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    NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES PARTICIPATING IN THE WISCONSIN RETIREMENT SYSTEM Please see the following release from the Department of Employee Trust Funds regarding the interest rates applied to the WRS accounts for active members and eligible inactive members:   http://www.etf.wi.gov/news/ht_20110211.htm Please e-mail benefits@uwgb.edu or call 465-2390 if you have any questions.

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    TSA Fee Increase

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    Please click on the following link to view the new TSA Investor newsletter: http://www.wisconsin.edu/hr/benefits/retsav/tsaspring11.pdf.  This newsletter is being made available earlier than usual to announce an increase in the TSA fee. In this newsletter, you will find articles regarding the following topics: * TSA fee increase * TSA program services the University provides * New…

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    HRS and How It Will Impact You

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    To find out more about HRS (the new Human Resource System) and how it will impact you, please mark your calendar to attend one of the following presentations in the 1965 Room in the University Union: * Thursday, February 10th from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. * Friday, February 18th from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.…

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    WRS News

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    The Department of Employee Trust Funds (ETF) and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) have joined together to create a new joint publication, WRS News.  WRS News replaces ETF’s former publication, Trust Fund News and SWIB’s former publication, The SWIB Report. The first issue of WRS News, January, 2011, is available for you at…

  • **HRS and Self-Service Coming Soon!**

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    Please click on the following link to view information about HRS and Self Service: http://www.uwgb.edu/hr/hrs/ Please e-mail hr@uwgb.edu or call 465-2390 if you have any questions.

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    T. Rowe Price Webinar

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    NOTICE TO EMPLOYEES REGARDING INFORMATIONAL WEBINAR T. Rowe Price, one of the investment companies participating in the UW System TSA 403(b) program, is sponsoring the webinar “Retirement Investing From Beginning to End” on February 7 and 8, 2011.   You can watch the presentation on your own computer.   Listen to the audio portion on your telephone. …

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    2010 WRS Returns

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    NOTICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES PARTICIPATING IN THE WISCONSIN RETIREMENT SYSTEM Please see the attached press release regarding the 2010 WRS returns:  http://www.swib.state.wi.us/2010_returns.pdf.   There is additional information available on SWIB’s main page as well:  http://www.swib.state.wi.us/. Please e-mail benefits@uwgb.edu or call 465-2390 if you have any questions.