WELCOME to the Retired State Employees Association website.

The RSEA is an independent, volunteer-driven, not-for-profit organization of retired State of Illinois employees and their survivors.

Last year State Employees’ Retirement System (SERS) had nearly 70,000 retirees and survivors receiving over $2.1 billion in retirement annuities - those are not small numbers.
While others in Illinois may fixate on the $2.1 billion, we want to show the influence of tens of thousands of retirees speaking with a unified voice.

We hope you will join us in our efforts. Your membership is important to the RSEA, our retirees, and to you. The more members an organization has, the stronger it becomes, and we use that strength to protect the rights and benefits of State retirees. Our membership dues allow us to fund our efforts to show elected officials and other policymakers that State retirees are actively interested in decisions that affect us.

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TRAIL MAPD Open Enrollment Meeting Dates for October 2025. 

CMS has published the dates for their TRAIL Open Enrollment Seminars.
The complete schedule for all 16 days is located here => 2025 TRAIL Seminar Dates

This information, and more, can be found at the CMS web site: https://cms.illinois.gov/benefits/trail.html

OUR AETNA MEDICARE COVERAGE IS NOT BEING CANCELLED.  

Recently national news and a Springfield publication announced that AETNA and HEALTH ALLIANCE WERE LEAVING ILLINOIS. If you read the entire article in that publication, it eventually indicated that these insurers are only dropping the Illinois Affordable Care Act plans offered through Get Covered Illinois and some of the Medicare Advantage programs offered for INDIVIDUALS. They ARE NOT pulling out of ILLINOIS. NO NEED FOR PANIC. OUR AETNA MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLAN is a GROUP plan and our state coverage remains intact and IS NOT BEING CANCELLED. CMS is in its third year of a five-year contract with Aetna.

SERS Alert: Recent Fraud Attempts on SERS Retirees

SERS wants you to be aware of fraudulent attempts to gather personal and financial information from retirees through text messages and emails. State Retirees are encouraged to read the following article which further explains how the fraud is being attempted.

Fraud Attempts against State Retirees

The Benefits of Membership

The RSEA advocates for its membership by monitoring proposed legislation that may affect retirement benefits, contacting legislators, and even making proposed changes when needed.

Other member benefits include a monthly newsletter (The Reporter), interesting guest speakers at our monthly meetings (ranging from representatives of the Alzheimer’s Association to gubernatorial candidates), and access to our Facebook group (which allows us to stream our monthly meetings to our members who might live outside the central Illinois region).

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We Are Moving

         New Meeting Location

Beginning in January 2023, the location of our monthly Springfield membership meeting is moving to Springfield First United Methodist Church, located at 2941 S. Koke Mill Road, Springfield, IL (on the Northwest corner of Koke Mill Rd and Wabash Ave). The meetings will still be held at 1:30 p.m. on the last Wednesday of the months January through October.