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About SUAA/UIUC  

Purpose: SUAA members work to protect, promote, and enhance the individual and collective interests of its members as annuitants and as SURS members. The SUAA/ UIUC Chapter represents these interests to the University, the state organization of SUAA chapters, to SURS, and to other organizations.

Membership: Membership in the SUAA/UIUC Chapter is open to all SURS members who: (1) Are annuitants following employment by the UI, UIUC, allied agencies, other agencies, other state universities or community colleges; (2) Are or could become SURS members as qualified survivors; or (3) SURS participants 50 years of age or over who are currently eligible to retire and start their SURS annuities, but have not yet chosen to do so, and to spouses of these participants.

What We Have Done: Efforts by active and retired UIUC employees in April, 1969 led to passage of legislation mandating an annual annuity increase of 1.5% per year. In April, 1970 the UIUC Chapter of the Annuitants of the State Universities Retirement System was founded. Among its activities was to help secure  provision in the 1970 revision of the Illinois Constitution that guaranteed pension and retirement rights for all State employees (Art. XIII, Sect. 5). In September, 1971 the UIUC Chapter prompted a meeting of representatives of the other Illinois state universities and, in November, 1971, the predecessor to SUAA was born. Since that time the organization has been instrumental in securing substantial benefit improvements for SURS annuitants and survivors. For more information: Robert J. Mosborg, Prof. Emeritus of Civil Engineering, wrote a series of articles for the Chapter Newsletter (The Annuitant, Spring 1998-Spring 2000) that drew, in part, from SUAA History: 25 Years, 1971-1996.

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