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AFSA
Membership for Retired
Foreign Service Employees
For over seventy
years, AFSA has been the collective voice of the foreign affairs community.
This membership program is for retired Foreign Serivce employees, surviving
spouses, and other federal retirees who served overseas in a diplomatic
capacity.
Our Successes
Include:
- Deflecting
challenges to the high professional standards of the Foreign Service.
- Safeguarding
your COLA from budgetary cuts.
- Ensuring
that health-care reform proposals do not adversely affect your medical benefits.
- Expanding
outreach to Congress and the public.
Benefits of
AFSA Membership:
- Counseling and Advice AFSA assists members with problems related to annuities, claims, health care and other retirement issues.
- Congressional
Activities AFSA regularly testifies before Congress on key issues
of concern to you: cost-of-living increases, healthcare benefits, survivor
annuities, professional issues and much more.
- Skills
database
AFSA members, who are available for jobs, college teaching, and speaking engagements in a wide variety of areas, post their skills online.
- Retiree newsletter AFSA produces a bimonthly newsletter exclusively for retired members.
- Foreign
Service Journal AFSA's monthly magazine offers provacative articles that will keep you current on developments in foreign affairs.
- Foreign
Policy Discussions AFSA coordinates a speakers program nationwide of top Foreign Service officials and other distinguished experts who discuss key issues and how they relate to U.S. foreign policy.
- Discount
Insurance Rates AFSA offers big savings on insurance packages for long-term healthcare, dental, and accident.
- Retiree
Groups AFSA helps bring retirees together by assisting Foreign Service associations throughout the country.
Rates:
All
retired FS employees, survivng spouses, and other federal retirees who served
overseas in a diplomatic capacity are eligible for membership.
| FS
Annuity |
Annual
Dues
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Monthly Annuity Deduction |
| over
$75,000 |
$159.55 |
$13.30 |
| between
$50-75,000 |
$127.50 |
$10.60 |
| between
$25-50,000 |
$95.40 |
$7.95 |
| under
$25,000 |
$63.70 |
$5.30 |
| FS
spouse |
$50.00
|
$4.15
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| Retired
Associate |
$60.00 |
n/a
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| Associate |
$98.05 |
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| Lifetime
Membership |
$1000.00
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n/a
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Membership
Application:
Please
print out an application
or fill in a form to
request an application, or just to receive additional information on AFSA
membership.
You
may also contact AFSA at the following address:
American Foreign Service Association
2101 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
1-800-704-AFSA (within the US) or (202) 338-4045
Fax: 202-338-6820
Email: retirees@afsa.org
Be a part of AFSA. Volunteer on committees, judges' panels,
speakers program,
and more.
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