Michigan Public School Retirement

Michigan Public School Educators

Extensive Experience Helping Michigan Public School Teachers and Staff

The retirement system for Michigan Public Schools is unique, so you need unique solutions and support to help you on your journey towards a great retirement. At GNZ, we have extensive experience helping Michigan Public School Teachers and Staff understand their retirement benefits. We have established a process to guide them through the essential steps, ensuring they get the most of their retirement benefits.

Whether you're approaching retirement or just starting to consider it, we are here to support you.

Our Process

For Michigan Public School Teachers and Staff, we have created the Educators Retirement Process, which is an extension of our Perspective Formula. This process focuses on the seven foundational pillars and your unique state benefits to maximize outcomes and support you on your path towards financial freedom.

How We Can Help

Exclusively for Michigan Public School Teachers and Staff, we offer unique retirement planning solutions, including educational webinars about your state benefits and no-cost, one-on-one retirement consultations.

See below for additional information.

Step 1: Learn About Your Unique Benefits

At GNZ, we have extensive experience helping Michigan Public School Teachers and Staff understand their retirement benefits. To support you on your path towards retirement, we have created a complimentary 25-minute retirement video that is available on demand.

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Additionally, if you are thinking about retiring from the public school system in the next 10-months, check out our "Retirement Ready" page for special considerations as you approach retirement.

Step 2: Schedule Your One-on-One Retirement Consultation

After you watch our on-demand retirement video, you can schedule your one-on-one retirement consultation. These meeting are always confidential and always complimentary for educators at our priority schools. Your Retirement Consultation Meeting will be held over Zoom and in our meeting we will answer any questions you may have, create a custom retirement analysis based on unique situation and discuss your path to retirement.

As part of your consultation, we will provide a custom retirement analysis based on your unique situation and your state benefits and this includes:

-Your State retirement benefits (Pension or DC plan)
- Your Social security benefits
- Your Investments and savings, growth expectations, and retirement withdrawal projections
- Your estimate Healthcare costs in retirement.

As part of the Retirement Consultation, we will request some supporting documents to create your custom retirement report.

We believe this Retirement Consultation is beneficial at every career stage, offering invaluable insights and a personalized roadmap to your retirement.

Schedule Your One-on-One Retirement Consultation Now!

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Other Key Resources for Michigan Educators

Michigan Office of Retirement Services - recommend logging into your ORS account to verify your years of service and your retirement plan; ORS Website.

Social Security* - recommend logging into SSA to get your Social Security Statement and to verify your earnings history; SSA.gov website.

VOYA - State of Michigan 457 & 401K Plan* - if you are a member of the Defined Contribution Plan or the Pension Plus Plan, you will have a State of Michigan 457 and 401K at VOYA. Plan information is available at VOYA State of Michigan.

We are here to help - please reach out if you have any questions.

*Not endorsed by, or affiliated with, the Social Security Administration, the State of Michigan, or any other government entity.

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