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The Government Employees Retirement System would like to advise its retirees that there will be a delay in payment for those retirees receiving their annuity payment via check. Retirees who receive their payment via ACH/Direct Deposit should not experience a delay. The delay is due to technical difficulties currently being…

Please pause for 2 minutes and read this: Let’s say it’s 7:25 pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and…

Mapp Proposing Retiree Health Insurance Cuts August 22, 2017 by Bill Kossler FY 2004-2018 Government Retirees Eligible For Health Insurance (Data compiled from V.I. Government Employee Retirement System budget testimony to the V.I. Legislature) As a cost-saving measure to help with the territory’s financial crisis, Gov. Kenneth Mapp sent a…

Good morning Retirees,   At 12:45 p.m. yesterday, I received the following text from Senator Kurt Vialet   the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.   ” Morning please be assured that I am working hard to protect health insurance for     retirees. Will not allow dropping retirees or…

WAPA UTILITY PAYMENTS WILL NO LONGER BE ACCEPTED AT SCOTIABANK AS OF END OF JULY-VI Consortium – 7/10/17 Community Center / News / Virgin Islands / July 10, 2017

Good day, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   St. Croix, VI –   The Administrator of the Government Employees’ Retirement System (GERS) is pleased to announce that Stephen K. Cohen, DDS has been selected as the retiree to complete the term of former Trustee Judge Edgar Ross through 2020, who resigned for…