Divorce and Domestic Relations Order (DRO)
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Naming a Beneficiary
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Whenever you experience life changes, it’s important to update your TRS account. You can easily update your mailing address through the MyTRS portal. Learn more about how to update your name, address and beneficiary and keeping your information current.
The TRS Benefits Handbook is a great source for information. The following are links to the handbook, a video on how to name a beneficiary and the beneficiary designation form.
Once you have named a beneficiary for a joint and survivor annuity and your first annuity has been issued by TRS, you may change that designation only when specific conditions are met. The following are links to information that may be helpful to you.
If you select Option 3 or 4 at retirement, you may change your beneficiary at any time during the guaranteed option period by filling out a Change of Beneficiary for Continuing Optional Retirement Annuity (Options Three and Four) form (TRS 30D) and returning it to TRS. TRS must receive an original signed TRS 30D form before the member's death to be effective. Please contact TRS to obtain form TRS 30D.
A state court may award a portion of a TRS participant's benefits to a spouse or former spouse in a divorce or other domestic relations proceeding. For more information, visit the link below.
You can remove dependents from your coverage at any time. To find out how, visit the FAQs page below.
You or your attorney must submit a written request identifying the participant by name and social security number (or Participant Identification Number), your relationship to the participant, the date of the marriage, what information you are requesting, and how the requested information relates to your interest. For more information, view the webpage below.