What Your Agent Can Do

Your financial power of attorney document determines the scope of your agent's authority. You may give your agent the ability to make many changes to your WRS account or limit them to a few actions.

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Disability Benefits

If you become disabled while working for a WRS employer, you may be eligible to receive WRS disability benefits that will give you income for the time you are unable to return to work.

Statement of Incapacity

Some financial power of attorney documents require that the principal is incapacitated before the agent can act on their behalf.

What a Guardian Can Do

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.

WRS News Online for Employees
May 1, 2025 4:30pm
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Boards of Trustees: Officer and Member Updates

All five Boards of Trustees that govern ETF recently reelected their respective officers. The Teachers Retirement Board also welcomes two new members representing the UWs and Milwaukee public school