ATTENTION: Retirement Beneficiary Updates Needed

ATTENTION

Retirement Beneficiary Updates Needed

The MWRA Employees’ Retirement Board requests that if you have not updated your retirement beneficiary form, that you please contact the Retirement Office at ext. 5595 (or (617) 305-5595.)  Many employees have on record with the Retirement Office a beneficiary form that is obsolete, and does not contain separate designations to protect employees’ rights in the event of death prior to retirement.  This affects employees who may have been hired several years ago, and who have not updated their beneficiary forms since.  If a member should die prior to retirement without an updated form on file with the Retirement Office, the right of the employee’s survivor to benefits may be adversely affected. 

Retirement Office Staff will be happy to verify employees’ current beneficiary designations, and to provide assistance with completing a new form.  Employees may also go to https://www.mwraretirement.com/ then to the Employee Portal to check their beneficiary designations.  If the portal does not show both a lump sum beneficiary designation AND an Option D designation, please complete a new beneficiary form and return it to the Retirement Office as soon as possible.  The correct two-page form may be found here:

https://www.mwraretirement.com/sites/default/files/fileattachments/gener...

Please note that no beneficiary change will be considered valid until the Retirement Office receives a completed original form.

Thank you for your cooperation.