Public Sector Retirement Plan Counselors
The Certified Retirement Counselor® (CRC®) Program was created in 1998 to help public sector retirement professionals meet the increasingly complex decisions that need to be made by today’s government retirees.
Changes to public sector retirement plan design since then now require employers to enhance the education and counseling provided to employees to help them shoulder increased personal responsibility for their retirement future. Retirement plan counselors need to be knowledgeable about all types of retirement plans and components of retirement planning – including defined benefit, defined contribution, deferred compensation, Roths, IRAs, Social Security, Medicare, retirement income planning and more – to better help employees be retirement ready.
The CRC® program is now used by over 60 retirement systems and has become recognized as the most comprehensive and informative program that meets the training needs of public sector retirement systems using primary or optional defined contribution plans, defined benefit plans, or hybrid plans. Retirement systems such as South Dakota Retirement System, Texas County & District Retirement System, PSRS of Missouri, Ohio STRS and other state, county and local entities use the CRC® to enhance the professional skills and ongoing knowledge of their retirement counselors.