Welcome to the SPTRFA website.

St. Paul Teachers’ Retirement Fund Association physical office is closed from December 24th through January 2nd. Staff is available during this time by email at info@sptrfa.org. We look forward to serving you in-office again on Monday, January 5, 2026, at 8:00 a.m.

Retirees, your monthly pension payment for January 2026 will be made without interruption on Friday, January 2nd. Your annual benefit letter was mailed the week of December 22nd.

We wish you a safe and happy holiday season.

Member News

SPTRFA Fall 2025 & Winter 2026 Retirement Benefit Seminars:

From SPTRFA’s November 20, 2025 Pre-Retirement Seminars:

From SPTRFA’s October 28-30, 2025 Member Annual Estimate Seminars:

Watch your SPPS email in February for your Zoom invitations for the February 11, 2026 pre-retirement seminars at 3:30 p.m. & 4:30 p.m. Email us at info@sptrfa.org if you have any questions.

Annual Meeting of the Members – March 12, 2026

The Annual Meeting of the Members will be held on March 12, 2026. The members currently holding three-year seats for this year’s election are Matt Bogenschultz, Thomas Koreltz, Stephanie Pignato.

Three board members are elected each year at the Annual Meeting of the Members. Members interested in running for a position on the Board of Trustees, please click here for information.

Additional information will be posted soon.

2025 Legislative Update

Please see SPTRFA’s information regarding the 2025 Legislative Session’s pension legislation via the following links:

05/18/2025: SPTRFA Letter on Pension Omnibus Bill

05/30/2025: SPTRFA Email to Members

Retired Members

The 2025 1099-R tax statements will be mailed in January 2026.

The January 2026 monthly pension payment was deposited on January 2, 2026, and the SPTRFA annual increase letter was mailed on December 22, 2025.

Please email your requests to info@sptrfa.org.

Active Members

Pension Estimate

Did you know you can request a personalized pension estimate for a specific pension date? All you need to do is provide us the information in our REQUEST BENEFIT ESTIMATE form or email our Member Benefits Team at: info@sptrfa.org.

Counseling Appointment

For counseling appointment requests, provide us information in our MAKE AN APPOINTMENT form or please email our Member Benefits Team at: info@sptrfa.org. At your appointment we’ll go over your pension estimate, your Lifetime Options, retirement application paperwork, and required documents.

Are you nearing retirement?

Review the November 20, 2025 Pre-Retirement Seminar Presentation. From SPTRFA’s November 20, 2025 presentation.

If you are retiring in the next few years we strongly encourage you to contact us to request a pension estimate and schedule a retirement counseling appointment.

Before your retirement counseling appointment, you can familiarize yourself with reading your SPTRFA Member Annual Estimate and SPTRFA’s Retirement Application documents (see link below).

• Review SPTRFA’s Retirement Application

Important Reminder: All SPTRFA Retirement Application documents, required certificates, and all required documentation must be submitted before SPTRFA will process your first pension payment.

Your SPTRFA Member Annual Estimate

Your SPTRFA Member Annual Estimate/Statement for FYE 2025 was emailed October 21, 2025 or mailed to you in mid-October 2025.

Your estimate is intended to give you a sense of approximately how much you could expect to receive when you begin to draw your SPTRFA benefit (assuming that you continue to work at your current FTE and retire on July 1 of any given year). It also illustrates how the value of your retirement benefit values increase the longer you work.

Important Note: these calculations are estimates only – they rely on many assumptions including: retirement service credit, fiscal year salary, current MN public pension laws, and continued employment with SPPS. Additionally, your current estimate is based upon data reflected in your SPTRFA retirement file as of June 30, 2025.

Serving our members is why we are here!

The staff of the SPTRFA is ready and able to serve our members via phone or Zoom meetings. Our regular office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. but we will do everything possible to meet with you or answer your questions at a time that works for you. If you have any questions or to set up a convenient Zoom meeting to review your benefits, please contact us by phone at 651-642-2550 or email at info at sptrfa.org.

Thanks again for your dedication to the vital art of teaching. We appreciate you and look forward to helping you along your journey.