While the ASRS offers a variety of benefits for members, our primary focus is providing members with a retirement benefit. There are a few different ways you can choose to receive that benefit once you've hit retirement eligibility - those choices are called your retirement annuity options. While it can seem overwhelming at first glance, our options fall into three distinct categories, each helping to accomplish different retirement goals. To help narrow down your choices, just ask yourself which of these three phrases best fits what you would like to accomplish in retirement: