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MEA-Retired
Visit the MEA-Retired website or visit the MEA.org website and click on MEA-Retired in their left navigation column to learn more about MEA-Retired and to join.
What are the reasons why you should join MEA-Retired?
There are many...
You continue to be eligible for insurance and investment programs offered by MEA Financial Services/ Paradigm Equities:
- Group rates for auto and home
- Group long-term care insurance
- Investment products
- Credit Card programs
MEA--Retired: Who we are:
- Advocates for and protectors of public education.
- Advocates for medical, dental,, vision and hearing .
- Members of NEA-Retired, which advocates on the Federal level to protect Social Secuirity benefits, pensions, and health care.
- Advocates united with MEA to protect active school personnel's working conditions, salaries, health care , and other fringe benefits.
- Advocates strong and united with:
· approximately 26,000 MEA-Retired members;
· approximately 18, 000 fully paid pre-retired subscribers;
· more than 80,000 MEA members enrolled in All Inclusive Membership (AIM);
· approximately 155,0000 MEA members
· more than 3.2 million NEA membes including retirees.
- Advocates networked in Michgan and Florida through local MEA-Retired chapters.
- Advoacates for constitutionally protected retiree pensions.
MEA--Retired: What we do:
- We work with MEA and NEA lobbyists.
- We campaign for the "public" in public education .
- Members of NEA-Retired, which advocates on the Federal level to protect Social Secuirity benefits, pensions, and health care.
- We campaign for pro-public education candidates.
- We fight for retiree benefits.
- We inform MEA-Retired members about education and retirement issues through:
· MEA Voice;
· NEA Today;
· Michigan Retirement Report;
· This Active-Life
· Websites:
www.mea.org
www.mea.org/mea-retired
www.nea.org
www.nea.org/retired
MEA--Retired also provides:
- Liability insurance to those members employed in a school system after retirement.
MEA--Retired has:
- Successfully lobbied for qualified retired public education employees legislative approval of health insurance coverage.
- Permanent increase in the base pension.
- Increase in retirement allowance through Member Investment Plan (MIP).
- Improvements in beneficiary options.
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