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Member Education

ETF offers a variety of educational resources for members to easily learn about and manage their benefits
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Variable Fund

Does putting money in the Variable Fund make sense for you? Learn what the Variable Fund is and how it is different from the Core Fund, and how it affects your retirement benefit. Watch this video about the topic on demand 24/7.

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Applying for Retirement

A 3 video series describing the process of applying for WRS retirement benefits. It includes how to request a retirement estimates and application, make a retirement appointment with ETF, and filling out and submitting your application.

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How to Use ETF's Tax Withholding Calculator

Learn how to use ETF’s tax withholding calculator to calculate your federal and Wisconsin state taxes tax withholding elections payment.

Videos and Webinars

Choose your learning format by registering for a webinar with live Q&A or watching a video on demand 24/7. Click on a topic below to see a list of videos and webinars on that topic.

Health Insurance

Learn how to choose your benefits, how different benefits work and how health benefits work in retirement.

Getting Ready for Retirement

Learn the steps to retirement through a variety of topics such as how your benefit is calculated, options for receiving your benefit, health benefits in retirement and more.

Your Benefits in Retirement

Learn about how your health and life insurance change in retirement, how your payments get adjusted and other important issues you may face in retirement.

Saving and Investing

Learn about the ways you can grow your retirement as well as information about the trust funds and deferred compensation plan.

Wisconsin Retirement System

Receive an overview of the WRS or understand how your benefits work.

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Events

Go to events at various times through out the year by choosing from webinars, appointments, presentations or benefit fairs.
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Videos

Watch a video about one of our education topics or about one of our benefit programs.
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Schedule an Appointment

Get the help you need by talking with one of our benefits specialists today or setting up an appointment.

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