Planning and preparation are essential for a successful retirement. This page has a list of things you can do to help ensure a smooth changeover to retirement.
If you are the owner of a WRS account from which a WRS death benefit or life insurance benefit would be payable upon your death, you may file a beneficiary designation.
If you wish to specify who shall receive a primary beneficiary’s share of a death or life insurance benefit if a primary beneficiary is deceased, you must use this alternate beneficiary designation form.
ET-4938
Form
Active Employee /
Retiree /
Other Benefit Recipient
The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of the Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds for the year ended December 31, 2017 provides comprehensive information about ETF, the Wisconsin Retirement System, and other benefit programs administered by ETF.
Each time a guardian makes a request on behalf of a member, ETF will review the Letters of Guardianship of the Estate. The request will be approved or denied based on the authority granted in the letters.
The Comprehensive Annual Financial Report of the Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds for the year ended December 31, 2016 provides comprehensive information about ETF, the Wisconsin Retirement System, and other benefit programs administered by ETF.
