ITBRC

Welcome to the

IBM Tampa Bay Alumni and Retiree Club

Serving Retired and Active IBMers in the Tampa Bay Area.

Coming Events

The IBM Tampa Bay Alumni and Returee Club supported the 2 highly successful reunions with our banking, administration, registration, communications, and website functions. The well attended Medical Benefits Seminars are no longer needed with the new IBM UHC plans. No seminars or golf events are planned due to lack of participation. Annual picnics were discontinued years ago due to lack of participation.The annual Back to the Races event will be skipped next year and resume in 2026 due to a big drop in participation this year. We will maintain the Club and the capabilities to support member event opportunities like the reunions in the future, if you have any suggestions for future events please let us know here or you can email me at j.r.hughes45@gmail.com

Seminar Materials

Materials for the Medical Benefits for the year 2023 are available on the following page: Medical Benefits Webinar for 2023. This material has been updated, it is now the final version. In additon, we have added a link to the audio of the webinar to this page. 

Materials for Medical Benefits for the year 2022 are available on the following page: Medical Benefits Materials for 2022. The updated final versions are now available on the page. In addition, we have added a file containing a video of the seminar that you can watch if you missed the actual event. 

In addition to the Medical Benefits materials, materials from the Retirement and Longevity Webinar have been added on the following page: Retirement and Longevity Materials  

Important Technical Notes

If you (or other Retiree Club members you  might know)  are not receiving Club emails, check if they are going to your Spam file where you can indicate  “Not Spam” to start to get them in your inbox.You can search your Spam file for the sender "IBM Tampa Bay Alumni and Retiree Club". Otherwise you can email Jim Hughes at j.r.hughes45@gmail.com to check on the email address in our database. Remember your email supplier may have a separate spam folder from the one that in on your device and you may need to check both spam files. 

It has recently come to our attention that changes made by Microsoft in Internet Explorer 10 and 11 have made it difficult if not impossible to view .pdf files on the web using that browser. Below are a couple of different alternatives to deal with this problem created by Microsoft.

1. Download the document to your computer and then use Adobe Reader to view it and print it. The Adobe Reader is a free download from Adobe and can be found at this web site.

2. Switch to Google Chrome web browser. This web browser is free and still works fine with .pdf files. You can obtain it at this web site.

3. Access this web site and view documents from your smart phone or tablet, most of which seem to have no issues with the .pdf format.

4. Go to the tools menu icon on the Internet Explorer tool bar and select the option of compatibility mode. Turn on compatibility mode for this website and things will return to normal and you will be able to access .pdf files on the web with Internet Explorer. 

We are sorry that this problem exists but the .pdf format is the most universal format existing today in the internet world and it is unfortunate that Microsoft has chosen in their latest releases to make it awkward for their customers to access this format. 

Kyndryl Presentation

A page has been added containing a customer presentation of the new Kyndryl company that has been spun off from IBM .

Life Planning Account

IBM announced the cancellation of the Life Planning Account (LPA) benefit effective January 1, 2020. The last day to submit 2019 claims is November 30, 2019. 

Club Registration and Email Update

All Retiree Club communications  in the future will be by email only. The postal mailing dated February 11 is the last paper mailing. A copy of the mailing was also sent to those with valid email addresses in the Club's member database. If you did not receive the email, check if it went to your SPAM folder. If it didn't go to SPAM, then either we don't have your email address in the database or the one we have is invalid. If you did not receive the email and want to get retiree Club communications in the future, you need to provide a valid email address either using the Club Registration function on the www.itbrc.org home page or send the information to itbrc.reg@gmail.com. If you change your email address, make sure you provide the new address by one of these methods. You can also access any Club communications which is always current and posted on this website.