TRS 2020 PENSION PAYMENT DATES; BIWEEKLY PAYROLL?

We get the question regularly about when our TRS pension checks will be posted. Many UFT members, active and retired, live from paycheck to paycheck and need to know when their money will be made available. For those of you who are active, please note that retirees are paid monthly, not twice monthly as when we are active or biweekly as it says we are supposed to be paid in the UFT Contract.

The UFT put Article 3L1 in the Contract back around 1995:

L. Salary Payment
1. The parties agree that a biweekly payroll gives employees a date certain for
receipt of their pay. Therefore, the Board will convert the pedagogical payroll to a
biweekly payroll from the existing semi-monthly payroll as soon as practicable. The 
parties will make whatever contractual changes are technically necessary to accomplish
this goal.

Why do they keep this provision in the contract if they have no intention of ever implementing it? I guess 23 years is not "as soon as practicable" for the DOE. UFT is very patient.

I digress; here is the pension payment calendar for 2020 as sent out by the Teachers Retirement System.