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What is SUAA?
The State
Universities Annuitants Association is a
not-for-profit organization created in 1971 to advocate a strong and
secure
public employee pension and health benefit system. SUAA
is a voluntary member association of
annuitants and active employees.
Why SUAA?
SUAA offers
continuous tracking of benefit issues and state
funding levels for the SURS pension system and the State Employee
Health
Insurance Plan. SUAA works with its
members and government officials to enhance benefits for all annuitants
and to
ensure appropriate funding for those programs. SUAA
is the organization that focuses solely
on pension and health benefits for the public universities and
community
colleges employees; both active and annuitants.
Click to find out why current employees need SUAA!
SUAA’s
Vision
SUAA is an
effective advocate for the 135,000 State
Universities Retirement System’s participants.
SUAA is a recognized leader in public
higher education on pension and benefit issues.
Who SUAA
Represents
SUAA Chapters
are on every public university and community
college campus.
The membership
includes:
- Retirees from
Illinois public
universities, community colleges and other SURS agencies;
- Spouses and
survivors of retires;
- Active academic
professionals, administrators, faculty, and support staff;
- SURS retirees
living out of the state of Illinois.
Click HERE for slides of
presentation to SUAA in October 2007 on the Social Security Windfall Elimination
Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO).
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