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Additional information about the Randolph-Macon College Retirement Plan and salary deferral/employer matching amounts may be found at the R-MC website at the following link: http://www.rmc.edu/Offices/human-resources/newretire.aspx
The Randolph-Macon College Retirement Plan is a defined contribution plan (403b) for all eligible employees. Eligible employees include all full-time faculty and staff that have completed 12 consecutive months of service and part-time employees (working 1,000 hours, or more, in any 12 consecutive months). The defined contribution for eligible employees currently includes contributions of 9% from the College and 5% contribution by participating employees.
Randolph-Macon College (RMC) current annuity plan carrier for our defined contributions Retirement Annuities (RA) account participants is TIAA-CREF. All employees of the College, regardless of the eligibility status for the Retirement Plan, can participate in salary reduction to a Supplemental Retirement Annuities (SRA) account with employee only contributions. SRA carriers include TIAA-CREF or The Vanguard Group. All TIAA-CREF (http://www.tiaa-cref.org/ ) and Vanguard (http://www.vanguard.com/ ) investment options are available to RMC participants.
The College has a Retirement Benefits Coordinator to counsel (but does not give investment advice) to employees on retirement plan issues. The Retirement Benefit Coordinator provides all employees with the following services:
- help with initial application/signup for retirement plans (RAs & SRAs);
- investment information; computes maximum employee contributions allowed by the IRS (using TIAA-CREF supplied software)
- provides an assessment overview of future retirement assets (using commercial computer software)
- discusses allocation distribution strategies for individual retirement savings; updates Retirement Plan changes
- reviews retirement income options for those employees nearing retirement; and assists in applying for retirement income at the time of retirement from the College.
Randolph-Macon's Retirement Benefits Coordinator is Tom Copler who may be reached at ext. 7263 for information about the retirement plan.
TIAA-Cref Telephone Contact information:
800 842-2252
Available 24 hours a day.
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If you use TDD or a telecommunications service, please call 800 842-2755.
Retirement plans
800 842-2776
Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 10 p.m. (ET)
Saturday, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. (ET)
Please note that our busiest time is Monday from noon to 2 p.m. (ET).