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    <Title>Webinar - Understanding Medicare</Title>
    <Tagline>Want to know more about Medicare?</Tagline>
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          <div><strong>This is a self-paced Webinar, please visit <a href="https://communications.fidelity.com/tem/WI/webcast/hub/#medicare3" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Fidelity's website</a> to view. </strong></div>
          <div><br></div>This free webcast on  Medicare will cover:<div>
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          <li>Planning for Medicare in your Retirement Income Place</li>
          <li>What Resources to use</li>
          <li>What is Medicare and what is Medicaid?</li>
          <li>A-B-Ds of Medicare</li>
          <li>Costs of Medicare </li>
          <li>When to enroll?</li>
          <li>Medicare Advantage Plans: "Part C"</li>
          <li>How Fidelity can help you plan for Medicare costs</li>
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          <div>Follow<a href="https://onlinexperiences.com/Server.nxp?LASCmd=AI:4;F:APIUTILS!51004&amp;PageID=E5C14103-0AE5-4062-95DE-4FF188192F90" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"> this link on Fidelity's website</a> to register for this webcast. </div>
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    <Summary>This is a self-paced Webinar, please visit Fidelity's website to view.     This free webcast on  Medicare will cover:   Planning for Medicare in your Retirement Income Place  What Resources to use...</Summary>
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  <Title>ATTN: Employees enrolled in the Pension</Title>
  <Tagline>Register for a Pre-Retirement WEBINAR!</Tagline>
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    <span>For employees enrolled in the MD State Retirement &amp; Pension system (the Pension Agency), pre-retirement WEBINARS are now available. T</span><span>hese webinars provide a general overview of Pension benefits - including a general description of retirement eligibility and benefits provided by the Pension Agency.</span><div><br></div>
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    <span>Pension Pre-Retirement WEBINARS registration link: </span><span><a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/5300924066429459971">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/5300924066429459971</a></span> </div>
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  <Summary>For employees enrolled in the MD State Retirement &amp; Pension system (the Pension Agency), pre-retirement WEBINARS are now available. These webinars provide a general overview of Pension...</Summary>
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  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="78371" important="false" status="posted" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/hr/posts/78371">
  <Title>Using your Tuition Remission benefit towards a PhD?</Title>
  <Tagline>Learn about how the Dissertation House can help you....</Tagline>
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    <div>This information was provided by UMBC's Graduate school and applies to employees who are <strong>enrolled at any USM institution</strong> in graduate school for their PhD.</div>
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    <br><div><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/62952">https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/62952</a></div>
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    <p>This activity is open to any full-time UMBC employee who is working on a thesis or dissertation, at any university, e.g., UMBC employees who are in the doctoral program at Frostburg University. This activity is also open to UMBC graduate students who are full-time employees, career professionals, or non-traditional returning students.</p>
    <p><em>Dissertation Coach: Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale</em></p>
    <p>Applications are open until September 21, 2018.</p>
    <p>To be considered for this DH please complete the following:</p>
    <p><span>- Click “Going” below, <strong>*AND*</strong> follow the application procedures on the main website for the Dissertation House: </span><a href="https://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/apply/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/apply/</a><span>. The application period to apply to attend this Dissertation House will close on September 21st.</span></p>
    <p><strong>Event Details:</strong></p>
    <ul><li><span>The Dissertation House runs from 9 AM – 5 PM, for two days, Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13.</span></li></ul>
    <ul><li><span>Students must plan to attend the full session, for each of the 2 days. </span></li></ul>
    <ul><li><span>The daily schedule includes 2 mini-lectures and 5 hours of writing per day.</span></li></ul>
    <ul><li><span>Breakfast, Lunch, and a snack will be served daily.</span></li></ul>
    <ul><li><span>The Dissertation House is free for UMBC’s graduate students.</span></li></ul>
    <ul><li><span>There are 18 spaces available for the Dissertation House. </span></li></ul>
    <ul><li><span>Details regarding eligibility can be found on the application page of the website for the Dissertation House.</span></li></ul>
    <span>Read about The Dissertation House in UMBC’s Alumni Magazine: </span><span>Byrne, R.  (2011, Fall)<span> </span></span><span>“The Write Stuff”</span><span><span>,</span> UMBC Magazine. p. 12. More information about the Dissertation House: <a href="https://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/about/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>https://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/about</span>/</a></span>
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    <Title>Wellness Wednesday - Today!</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Interested in learning self-defense?  We have spots available for today's Wellness Wednesday.  Grab your work out clothes, tennis shoes and your red card and join us in the lobby of the RAC at noon! </div>
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    <Summary>Interested in learning self-defense?  We have spots available for today's Wellness Wednesday.  Grab your work out clothes, tennis shoes and your red card and join us in the lobby of the RAC at noon! </Summary>
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    <Title>WELCOME: UMBC's Recently Hired Staff</Title>
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          <div>Please join the Department of Human Resources in extending a warm welcome to the University's recently hired staff:</div>
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          <div>Eric Bateman, Facilities Management</div>
          <div>Keyara Blackmon, Shriver Center</div>
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  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="78290" important="false" status="posted" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/hr/posts/78290">
    <Title>Employees enrolled in the MD State Pension</Title>
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    <Title>Job Well Done Group Award</Title>
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    <Title>WELCOME: UMBC's Recently Hired Staff</Title>
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  <Title>Pension Pre-Retirement Seminar</Title>
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  <Summary>UMBC is pleased to once again host the Maryland State Retirement Agency for the annual Pension Pre-Retirement Seminar on Thursday, September 13, 2018, 8:30am - 4:00pm.      This all-day seminar...</Summary>
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    <Title>IRS Encourages All Employees to Use the "IRS Tax Calculator"</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Please read this important memo from Central Payroll Bureau regarding the 2018 tax law changes.<div><br></div>
          <div>LINKS:<br><div><br></div>
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          <div><a href="https://interactive.marylandtaxes.gov/Extranet/cpb/POSC/User/Start.aspx" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UPDATE W4 VIA PAYROLL ONLINE SERVICE CENTER</a></div>
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    <Summary>Please read this important memo from Central Payroll Bureau regarding the 2018 tax law changes.    LINKS:     IRS WITHHOLDING CALCULATOR     UPDATE W4 VIA PAYROLL ONLINE SERVICE CENTER</Summary>
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