The SCEA-R is the leading advocate for retired public school employees in the state of South Carolina. The SCEA-Retired continuously monitors the South Carolina Retirement System to ensure that your benefits will not be cut and will continue to increase as the cost of living increases. We ensure that the benefits our retired members have worked so diligently to secure will remain stable and secure.

The SCEA-Retired members are represented by District Directors at Board Meetings and by local/county delegates at the October Delegate Assembly. All members are eligible and invited to register and attend the Annual Convention. Guests may register to attend also.

The SCEA-Retired gives a scholarship each year known as the J.P. Coates/SCACT Scholarship.  This scholarship is given to a high school senior desiring to attend a college or university in South Carolina and major in education.  Local members participate in volunteer activities especially Read Across America.

Delegates are elected to represent The SCEA-Retired members at the NEA-Retired Annual Meeting and NEA Representative Assembly. Retired members will receive the NEA Retired bimonthly magazine, This Active Life, as well as The SCEA EMPHASIS which includes The SCEA-Retired news article.

As a retired member, you may continue to enjoy the wide range of valuable Member Benefits program created to improve your quality of live.  These benefits include:

• The SCEA/NEA Attorney Referral Program. Members are entitled to two free consultation sessions up to thirty (30) minutes each on any topic except income tax preparation or employment related problems. When a consultation legal services the attorney's rates will be discounted thirty percent (30%) if the problem involves one of the five core areas:  wills and estates; domestic relations; consumer protection; real estate, and traffic violations.
   

• NEA Health, Disability and Casualty Insurance Programs.  NEA-Retired members and their spouses or domestic partners can fill the gaps in their Medicare coverage with the NEA-Member Care.
   

• The SCEA-R/NEA Long Term Care Insurance. Coverage for individual and family home health care, assisted living facility care, nursing home care and respite care through National Health Administrators underwritten by Life Investors Insurance of America. Call 1-800-884-2675 for more information.
   

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