Teacher Retirement

The Teacher Retirement System aims to provide retirement benefits and other related remuneration to the teachers who had chosen to be a part of the program. Moreover, the Teacher Retirement System seeks to sensibly invest and administer the possessions that were held in confidence by the teachers and their respective beneficiaries in a very good arrangement managed in conformity to the appropriate “fiduciary principles.

Indeed, with all these things present, the teacher retirement is truly a feasible method of saving for the future. All state programs for teacher retirement are analyzed and evaluated, and recommendations are provided for systems improvement in each state system. This is a minimal appraisal of three series of records transferred to the Archives and Information Services Division of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS).

The Board of Trustees is responsible for the administration of the Teacher Retirement System.Your retirement benefit is handled by TRS, the Teacher Retirement System.

RETIREES If you currently receive a monthly retirement benefit from TRS, begin here for retirement information and to conduct business with TRS.

The 51st Legislature passed legislation in 1949 expanding membership eligibility to all employees of public education institutions (Senate Bill 333, Regular Session). The 74th Legislature in 1995 authorized TRS to offer a health insurance program for active school employees (Senate Bill 9, Regular Session). In 2001, TRS was given the responsibility of administering a new statewide health care program for eligible public school employees and dependents called TRS-Active Care (House Bill 3343, 77th Legislature, Regular Session).

TRS serves more than 1,000,000 members--847,000 are public education employees and 201,000 are annuitants. EEO complaints files are personnel records documenting discrimination complaints filed by employees of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. ERS is proud to administer insurance benefits for you and the more than 200,000 employees and retirees of public universities and community colleges in Texas. Some employees who work at colleges and universities have the choice of paying into a TRS retirement account or the Optional Retirement Program (ORP). Their rules about when you are eligible to retire are different from the rules for state agency employees under ERS.