The State Retirees Association is a non-profit association of state retirees and those within five years of retirement. We were established by a group of retirees in 1994 to insure our concerns were heard when matters of retirement benefits and health insurance were being considered. Membership is open to all who are in the retirement systems of the State of South Carolina and who are either retired or near retirement. We operate under a board of directors members of which are elected to four year terms at our annual meeting.

 

What We Do

The State Retirees Association is a strong advocate for retirees and identifies key issues that may affect them. Among these are the continuation of annual cost of living increases, raising concerns about retirement fund investment strategies, and insuring full funding of increases in our health insurance program. All of these issues have been of great concern over the past several years. We lobby for our interests in a very proactive way. Since we are all retired or nearly so, we can be much more aggressive in our political activity and we are. We believe this has been very successful in the past several years. We don’t want more than we were promised as employees and retirees. But we want to insure that those benefits do not erode.

 

Who Can Join

Any person who is a beneficiary of the SC State Retirement Systems or is within five years of being eligible for retirement. This includes the General Assembly Retirement System (GARS), the Judges and Solicitors Retirement System (JSRS), the Police Officers Retirement System (PORS), and the SC Retirement System (SCRS).