MSRB By the Numbers / June 2025
The State Retirement Board (MSRB) is working diligently to process the thousands of pending benefit requests and inquiries we regularly receive. We thank our members for their continued understanding.
- In June, the MSRB issued $256m in benefits to more than 72,293 retirees and beneficiaries. As of 2025, the MSRB has issued $1.53 billion in benefits.
- The MSRB added 232 new benefit payees. As of 2025, the MSRB has added 1,532 new benefit payees.
- Accelerated payments were provided to 45 new retirees, totaling $289k in gross retro-benefits approved for payment in mid-June. As of 2025, 370 have received the accelerated payment, totaling $3.25m in gross retro-benefits.
- For the payroll periods running June 1 through June 28, the MSRB Disbursement Unit processed 421 refunds/rollovers/transfers totaling approximately $7.82m in net funds issued. As of 2025, the number of disbursements is 2,193, totaling $42.1m in net funds issued.
- MSRB staff fielded approximately 7,950 telephone calls for June 2025 that were made to the main department extensions. Over 5,357 calls were taken by the Call Center and over 557 by our Member Account Management and Retiree Benefit Account Management Units. (This data does not take into consideration those calls made directly to staff extensions.)
- As of June 30, 2025, 56,843 retirees/survivors subscribe to the monthly MSRB Retiree eNews Bulletin. This represents approximately 79% of our total retirees/beneficiaries.
Additional Resources
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