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The costs of providing care are high and demands on a caregiver's time are significant. Even if you are not a caregiver currently, there is a good chance you will be at some point in your life. Use the information and resources on this page to help you learn about caregiving and make a plan for financial security.

Understand the steps to report a death and ETF’s process for paying benefits.

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.

Your WRS account information is confidential, and no one can receive information about or make changes to your account unless authorized. You can authorize another person to make changes to your account by submitting a financial power of attorney document to ETF.

A divorce’s financial impact can have long lasting effects. Here’s how divorce affects your WRS benefits.

Free special webinars for everyone to commemorate the National Retirement Security Month.

This handbook provides general information about benefit plans administered by ETF and does not contain complete information for all benefits. Use this handbook as an overview and contact your employer’s benefits office for specific information applicable to you.

Information on how a divorce may affect WRS benefits, beneficiary designations as well as information for the alternate payee.

Designate an attorney-in-fact to act in your stead for an appeal to 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.