Why Join RPEN?

Public employees presume their retirement will be protected. For that to happen, it takes attention to retirement and health care issues which, if left unattended, can cause serious problems for retirees. RPEN works to ensure those concerns are addressed.

RPEN was formed in 1977 by a group of Nevada public employee retirees including the state's first executive officer of PERS. These founders discovered that upon retirement, retirees not only lived on fixed incomes but saw an increasingly greater percentage of their retirement income spent for health care.

In the 1980s, RPEN helped work for the establishment of a schedule of post retirement increases for Nevada retired public employees.

RPEN has a full-time state office in Carson City. Among the services provided through this office are:

• Taking retiree issues to the state legislature.
• Testifying before legislative hearings and other important committees and panels.
• Attending meetings of the PERS board, the Public Employees Benefits Program (PEBP) board, other legislative meetings and meetings of other boards and commissions.
• Working for approval of annual post retirement increases for retired public employees.
• Protecting post retirement increases and health insurance programs affecting retired public employees.