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ORS is committed to serving members and employees today and preparing them for tomorrow. With this in mind, we are now offering the following webinars and seminars.
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Preretirement Seminars
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Running time: Approximately 2 hours
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You may notice we have scheduled fewer meetings than in previous years. This gives us greater opportunity to consider special meeting requests. Information about how to request a special meeting will be sent to your employer.
This two-hour meeting is an opportunity for you to hear an overview of your retirement benefits so you can make informed decisions about your retirement and your future. Topics include:
- Earning and purchasing service credit
- Eligibility requirements
- Calculating retirement benefits
- Insurance coverage
- Questions and answers
The meetings are offered throughout the state by region. In order to provide better customer service and to assure adequate seating and materials, advance registration is required for these meetings. To begin the registration process, please click on the region where you would prefer to attend a meeting.
Note: If the facility is closed due to inclement weather or for any other reason, the meeting is canceled.
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"Ready, Set, Retire!!"
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Running time: Approximately 2 hours
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Our Detroit office offers Ready, Set, Retire sessions for public school employees retiring within the next 12 months. This optional counseling session focuses solely on understanding the pension estimate and assisting with questions about the retirement application forms. Before attending the session, you must:
- Calculate your own personal estimate on miAccount, and
- Attend a pre-retirement seminar (described above), or
- Review the contents of this website, or
- Read the
Retirement Readiness
publication
Ready, Set, Retire group sessions are offered on Mondays or Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. or Fridays at 9:30 a.m. for a maximum of 16 participants per session (spouses welcome). Complete confidentiality will be exercised.
Registration is required.
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Qualifying for Your Pension
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Running time: 5 minutes 41 seconds
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What do you need to do to become eligible for your public school pension? How old do you need to be? How much service credit do you need to accumulate? What do you need to know about how your retirement plan-MIP or Basic-affects when you can retire? These questions will be answered in the tutorial Qualifying for Your Pension.
View the Qualifying for Your Pension tutorial now.
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The Equated Plan
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Running time: 6 minutes 12 seconds
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This tutorial gives an overview of the Equated Plan while discussing how it affects your Social Security payment, who should choose the Equated Plan, and who should avoid it.
View The Equated Plan tutorial now.
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Hardware/Software Recommendations
We recommend the following hardware/software configurations for viewing the webinars.
Windows Operating System
- 400-megahertz (MHz) or higher processor
- 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or more
- Microsoft Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or later, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, or Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
- Super VGA (800 × 600) or a higher-resolution monitor
- Sound card with speakers or headphones
- Microsoft Windows Media Player® 9 or later
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or later
Apple Macintosh Operating System
- Apple Mac OS X v 10.2 or later
- Windows Media Player for Mac OS X
- Sound card with speakers or headphones
- Internet Explorer* 5.2.2 (or later) for Mac
* Some advanced playback features may not be available when you view a presentation in Netscape Navigator running on the Windows operating system or in Internet Explorer for the Macintosh.
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