Excellent News for T-DROP Participants and those entering T-DROP in 2015.  ATRS will pay a 5.5% interest rate on ALL T-DROP DEPOSITS IN 2016!

T-DROP and Post 10 Year T-DROP are already scheduled to receive 6% interest on June 30, 2015. The ATRS Board action now sets the payment at 5.5% interest for June 30, 2016!

On Monday, April 6, 2015, the ATRS Board of Trustees adopted a Resolution setting the T-DROP interest rate for July 1, 2016 at 5.5% interest rate.  In the same ATRS Board meeting, the Post-10 Year T-DROP interest rate was also set by a second ATRS Board Resolution at 5.5% for July 1, 2016.  Remember that T-DROP participants who submitted an application to retire out of T-DROP this year may cancel the retirement application and continue in T-DROP.  I have attached the two ATRS Board Resolutions that set the interest rates for both T-DROP and Post 10 Year T-DROP at 5.5% for July 1, 2016.

Remember that ATRS has a new website that allows members to have direct access to specific member account information. Now 4,000 members have direct account access to account information. Here is the link to the instructions to sign up: https://www.artrs.gov/general/director-updates/716-08-15-2014-executive-director-update-the-new-atrs-website.

You can sign up to obtain these executive director updates through your private email address. Updates are made throughout the year such as at retirement season and other times when information needs to be shared. Now, over 8,000 people have signed up to receive this executive director by listserve email. You can find the link to sign up for listserve delivery to these updates here: https://www.artrs.gov/login

In addition, over 10,000 people have access to the ATRS executive director updates via direct email delivery. It is always a great pleasure for ATRS staff to learn of more ways to provide information to ATRS members, employers, and beneficiaries. The ATRS Board is committed to providing a system that is member friendly and transparent.

You can also get helpful ATRS information on the ATRS Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/arkansasteacherretirementsystem under the name of Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. Over 2,300 Facebook users get regular updates via the ATRS Facebook page. Go to the Facebook page and "like" ATRS to get daily updates. I try to go to the Facebook page every day to post information and answer member questions about ATRS. In addition, if you use Twitter, you can follow events at ATRS and issues of interest by finding the Twitter ID of ATRS or find George Hopkins in the Twitter directory. The link is https://twitter.com/atrs ATRS is here to serve you! 

Respectfully,

George Hopkins  

Click on the following document(s) for more information:

Resolution 2015-10

Resolution 2015-11