To join or renew your HCAA/SUAA membership
Retirees click here. Current employees click here.
- Everybody likes picture, see information about the above HCAA member pictures, and more pictures at our Photo Gallery. To share your pictures, email them to myhcaa@outlook.com with a brief title.
- Meeting notes from the most recent SUAA meeting are posted here. Highlights include
– SURS is looking at additional health insurance options
– Tier II is a rapidly growing issue. By 2030, 75% of employees will fall under Tier 2. - The main impacts of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” are summarized here . Thank you Michael Nejman and Linda Kolbusz
- The SUAA Foundation offers scholarships ($1000 each), professional development grants (up to $1000 each) and emergency assistance to members. For more information, contact a-medenwald@neiu.edu and include “SUAA Foundation information request” in the email title.
- The SUAA website suaa.org lists a number of discounts and other benefits for members see https://www.suaa.org/savings-discounts
- List of Harper Retirees click here
Upcoming Events
Book Club – February 4, 2025 First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston from Amazon: “This fast-paced read has everything you could want in a thriller: secret identities, a mysterious boss and a cat & mouse game that kept me guessing the whole way through.” —Reese Witherspoon. Evie Porter has everything a nice Southern girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence, a tight group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist. (For more information contact Jaci Carroll at myhcaa@outlook.com to receive zoom link for meetings.)
Wednesday, March 11, at 1:00pm – Join us at Peggy Kinnane’s Irish Restaurant and Pub, 8 N Vail Ave, Arlington Heights for a St Patricks Day lunch celebration. Please be sure to RSVP by email at myhcaa@outlook.com so that we can reserve a big enough table.
A list of local events HCAA members are planning on attending
| Event | Venue | Date | RSVP/info |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday Night Laughs | Schaumburg Prairie Center for the Arts | Jan 29 7:00pm | Click here |
| Corky Siegel & Kalyan Pathak Chicago Blues | Hey Nonny Arl Hts | 2/11/2026 19:30 | Click here |
| Abbey Road Beatles Tribute Band | Schaumburg Prairie Center for the Arts | 2/14/2026 | |
| Chris Greene Quartet – Jazz | Arl Hts Library | 2/25/2026 2pm | RSVP suggested click here |
| Fox Crossing String band – bluegrass | Arl Hts Library | March 22 2 pm | RSVP suggested ahml.info |
| David Chiriboga and Olya Prohorova Classical, Flamenco, and Latin music | Historic Schweikher House Schaumburg | 2/22/2026 14:30 | Click here |
| Faree Haque & Goran Ivanovic Flamneco/Jazz/Balkan | Arl Hts Library | 4/26/26 2 pm | RSVP suggested ahml.info |
| The Harper Ensemble Theatre Company Presents: A DOLL’S HOUSE | Harper College Blackbox Theatre, L109 | April 29, 2026 7:30pm | Click here |
| The Willow Trio Classical | Arl Hts Library | 5/31/26 2 pm | RSVP suggested ahml.info |
Our Purpose, Your Benefit…
To promote the individual and collective interests and welfare of Harper College annuitants (retirees) and their survivors, and employees through:
- Early notification and perceived effects on HCAA members of proposed changes to State law
- Relevant updates to HCAA members on healthcare/Medicare coverage
- Discussions with and service to Harper College
- Improved communications between Harper and its retirees
- Scheduled social events for members
- Discussion/participation with other IL annuitant and state organizations
- Active communication with legislators on relevant concerns
- Workshops/ presentations on relevant topics
- Harper parking stickers
- Reduced admission to select Harper events