free retirement planning fair for members of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) will be held 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, September 17 at the North Tahoe Conference Center, 8318 North Lake Blvd. in Kings Beach.
CalPERS members include state, classified public school, community college, and other public employees in the Sierra Nevada area. CalPERS serve municipal employees in Truckee, South Lake Tahoe, Nevada City, Grass Valley, Auburn and Susanville. Members also include county employees in Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, and Sierra counties. Staffs at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe and Sierra College with campuses in Rocklin, Truckee and Grass Valley are also served by CalPERS.
CalPERS members who attend the fairs will receive information on CalPERS benefits, programs, and services to help them plan for a financially secure retirement. Retirees receive information about how to better manage and preserve their retirement assets.
Each fair will feature more than a dozen information tables on topics such as services provided by CalPERS regional offices, CalPERS health benefits, how service credit affects your retirement benefit, and CalPERS Supplemental Income Plans. The fairs also feature representatives from Social Security, the State Savings Plus Program, the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, and various public employee and retiree organizations.
Each fair also features regularly scheduled workshops that are repeated throughout the day where participants can receive detailed presentations on CalPERS benefit basics, CalPERS health benefits, how Medicare interacts with CalPERS health benefits, retirement service credit, Social Security, and the State Savings Plus Program.
More detailed information about the 2009 CalPERS retirement planning fairs, along with maps, driving directions, and workshop schedules, is available on the CalPERS Web site at www.calpers.ca.gov/retirementplanningfairs. CalPERS members can pre-register for a fair in the “My Education†area of the my|CalPERS member Web site at my.calpers.ca.gov.
CalPERS is the nation’s largest public pension fund with more than $182 billion in market assets. It provides retirement benefits to more than 1.6 million State, school, and local public employees, retirees and their families, and health benefits to nearly 1.3 million members. For more on CalPERS, visit calpers.ca.gov.
