Dear Current University and Community College Workers and Retirees:

For university and community college employees in the SURS system, there’s urgent news out of Springfield.  And it’s bad news.  It affects your pocketbook today and your retirement benefits for the long term. 

The Governor’s 2% proposal is off the table for now, but that wasn’t the only item that would impact your pension and health care benefits.

If you want to stop this, we need your help.  It’s urgent.

 
We are the State Universities Annuitants Association – SUAA.  Our organization is fighting to hold the line on the benefits you deserve and enjoy.  We are focused on preserving the pension and health care benefits of current university and community college employees and retirees.
 
Sometimes we’re asked, “Isn’t your association just for university and community college system retirees?”  The answer is “Absolutely not!”  We serve retirees AND CURRENT EMPLOYEES.  The “Did you know?” box is an example why current employees need to join SUAA too. 
 
With state government looking for ways to slash costs and cut benefit programs, we stand up for your retirement benefits and against the growing number of proposals that aim to take those benefits away from you.
 
You may be a member of another group interested in these issues.\  They may be involved in a broad variety of issues at all levels of government, but we are not.  Please understand, at SUAA, we are narrowly focused on university and community college employee pension and healthcare retirement benefits.
 
In this critical time, we are asking you to join our association as we fight for your benefits – and membership in SUAA is economical.  To join for one year the cost is $36 or even less, depending on the local chapter dues where you live.  ($21 for state membership and no more than $15 for your local chapter)