{"id":1978,"date":"2021-01-05T10:17:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T18:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/?page_id=1978"},"modified":"2021-11-25T09:51:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:51:51","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1><span style=\"color: #0080a8\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Other Helpful Resources<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Statewide Health Insurance Benefit Advisors (SHIBA): <\/strong>Part of the insurance commissioner&#8217;s consumer protection services, SHIBA provides free, unbiased, and confidential assistance with Medicare and health care choices. Call 1-800-562-6900 or visit their website at <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insurance.wa.gov\/about-oic\/what-we-do\/advocate-for-consumers\/shiba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.insurance.wa.gov\/about-oic\/what-we-do\/advocate-for-consumers\/shiba\/<\/a>.<br \/><\/span>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB)\/Health Care Authority (HCA): <\/strong>For everything you want to know about state employee and retiree healthcare plans and benefits, call 1-800-200-1004 or visit their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pebb.hca.wa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.pebb.hca.wa.gov\/<\/a>.<br \/><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Social Security:<\/strong> Call 1-800-772-1213 or visit their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialsecurity.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.socialsecurity.gov\/<\/a>.<br \/><\/span>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Department of Retirement Systems (DRS): <\/strong>For information about your pension benefits, retire and rehire, forms, self-estimates, and legislative updates, call 1-800-547-6657 or visit the DRS website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drs.wa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.drs.wa.gov<\/a>. Also, prospective retirees can access important information about the rules, regulations, and timelines regarding the decision to retire.<br \/><\/span>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Washington State Investment Board:<\/strong> For information about how billions of dollars in investments for state retirement and other public trust fund assets are being managed and are performing, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sib.wa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.sib.wa.gov<\/a>.<br \/><\/span>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong>AARP:<\/strong> For a wealth of information about Senior advocacy (particularly health care and prescription drugs) visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/about-aarp\/nrta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/about-aarp\/nrta\/<\/a>.<br \/><\/span>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong>State of Washington:\u00a0<\/strong>Go to the state&#8217;s homepage at <a href=\"https:\/\/access.wa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/access.wa.gov\/<\/a> for information on who your current legislators are and how to contact them; how to order and submit many state forms for licenses, patents, and copyrights; and how to search for part time employment.\u00a0<br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\"><strong>Additional aging and senior care resources: <\/strong>For information about assisted living and other care options, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caring.com\/senior-living\/assisted-living\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.caring.com\/senior-living\/assisted-living\/<\/a>. For this information specific to Washington State, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caring.com\/senior-living\/assisted-living\/washington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.caring.com\/senior-living\/assisted-living\/washington<\/a>.<br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other Helpful Resources &nbsp; Statewide Health Insurance Benefit Advisors (SHIBA): Part of the insurance commissioner&#8217;s consumer protection services, SHIBA provides free, unbiased, and confidential assistance with Medicare and health care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1978","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1978\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wssra-units.org\/thurstoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}