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NEA Publications and Professional Library

One of the benefits of NEA membership is having a wealth of information at your fingertips. Publications of interest to NEA-Retired members include:

This Active Life: Our bimonthly NEA magazine reports on people, events, and concerns directly related to our Retired members.

Healthy, Wealthy and Wise—The NEA-Retired Guide to Maintaining Financial Security: This 50-page manual guides current and potential retirees through questions about Social Security, personal retirement finances and relevant law, estate planning, home security, and health care.

A Toolkit for Protecting Your Retirement

Protecting the Retirement Security of NEA Members: A Toolkit is a step-by-step guide to help you understand and prepare for the battle against defined benefit pension plans. Find out if you're at risk and learn what you can do to protect your financial future.

The toolkit is presented here in eight PDF files . You must have the free Acrobat Reader to view these files.

Primer (627k, 19 pp): Describes the advantages of defined benefit (DB) pension plans and the weaknesses of defined contribution (DC) plans; the threats to DB plans; and the experiences of states that have adopted DC plans or have proposed legislation to do so.
Glossary (66k, 3 pp) of pension terms.
Frequently Asked Questions (62k, 2 pp).
Developing an Action Plan (61k, 2 pp): Suggestions for conducting effective campaigns around pension issues, drawn from the experiences of NEA affiliates.
NEA Resolutions (48k, 3 pp) concerning pension issues approved by the NEA Representative Assembly.
Questions for Investment Managers (42k, 1 pp): What you should ask.
Research Findings And Additional Resources (98k, 5 pp): Studies, reports, and a list of Web sites that contain useful information for promoting and defending defined benefit retirement plans.
Myths And Misperceptions (2754k, 14 pp): A white paper prepared by the National Association of State Retirement System Administrators to address common myths and misperceptions involved in efforts to replace defined benefit pension plans with defined contribution plans.

Contact the NEA-Retired Office for copies of the following:

NEA-Retired Resource Directory: This handbook for NEA-Retired members includes governance and policy documents, contacts, calendars, and more.
NEA-Retired Member Benefits Brochure: Check out benefits exclusively for NEA-Retired members.
NEA-Retired Progran: Find out how retired educators help protect the benefits and services that took a lifetime to obtain.

Additional NEA Publications:

Works 4 Me: This section of NEA's Web site offers inspiration and classroom tips to teachers at all experience levels. Works4Me subscribers each week receive an e-mail message with two practical classroom tips submitted by fellow teachers. Browse the Works4Me Library or submit your own tried-and-true classroom tips!

NEA Professional Library: NEA has hundreds of book and video titles available on a wide variety of education topics. NEA-Retired members are eligible for member discounts on purchases.

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