Retirement
Letters at The Retirement Cafe
Including Sample
Retirement
Letters and a Retirement Letter
Template
How
to Write a Retirement
Letter
Perhaps like many soon-to-be retired
individuals, you are ready to submit a
retirement
letter to
proudly
announce 'I Am Outta
Here" to live
life
the
way
it
was
meant to
be
lived and live
your wants as to where
to retire.
Retirement letters are
not all that hard to write. If you want to formal,
a retirement letter should start with the particulars of
the applicant followed by those of the employer/head of the
department.
Incidentally,
retirement letters or sample retirement letters are
sometimes referred to as "goodbye letters for
work."
Other terms used
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include:
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The main body of
your letter of intent to retire can be divided
into short paragraphs with each paragraph focusing on specific
information relating to work and your
retirement planning.
For instance, the first
paragraph can inform your organization that you intend to
retire. You can also provide the effective date of your intent
to retire, the years of career service that you have put
in, and whether you want to continue to contribute to your
company's medical, dental, and life insurance programs (if
applicable to your organization).
In another paragraph of
your retirement letter, you can thank your
organization for the cooperation and the opportunities
provided by the company and fellow workers during your
years of your work in the company/organization.
The last
paragraph can offer your assistance to the
organization during the period of transition and the
details of the company's property returned by you.
You can provide a forwarding address and an e-mail
address so the organization can contact you after you
leave the organization.
Some More Tips for
How
to
Write a
Retirement Letter
1. Include the
following items in your letter of intent
to retire:
- Your name
- Date of the retirement
letter
- Corporate Employee ID
Number
- Years of service
- Official date of
retirement
- Whether to continue medical,
dental and other retirement benefit
contributions
- Whether you want to be of some
small assistance after you retire
2. The letter of
retirement should be clearly written with no
opportunity for misunderstanding by the employer.
3. The retirement letter should be written in a graceful
and cordial tone.
4. Leave a forwarding address in your retirement
letter.
Here are some simple sample retirement letters
that you can use as retirement templates to create
your own letter of intent to
retire.
Sample
Retirement Letter #1
Dear Mr. /Ms. Last
Name:
After having just
read
The Joy of
Not Working: A Book for the Retired,
Unemployed, and
Overworked
by Ernie J.
Zelinski a few years ago, I considered
retiring, but I put it off for a
while.
So considering this
retirement advice and after taking all
of Zelinski's wisdom to heart, this letter
of intent to retire is to inform you that I
intend to leave my position of
marketing manager effective January
1, 2015.
After
serving the company for over
thirty years, I wish to take this
opportunity to extend my gratitude for your
fine leadership, support, and cooperation
all this time. I would also like to express
my appreciation to all the other staff
including my colleagues for their support
and friendship throughout my stay
here.
I would
like to continue contributing to the
benefits plan and insurance coverage in my
retirement.
Note that
I am providing my forwarding address as
well as my e-mail address on the attached
page for your records for any future
correspondence with me.
Sincerely,
[Your name
and signature]
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Sample Retirement
Letter #2
The followiing letter of intent to
retire can be used by employees who intend to retire
at the end of their careers and want to formally inform their
employer.
Of course, depending on employer and
the employee, every individual retiree will have a unique
situation, circumstances, and terms and conditions of service.
Thus, the same retirement letter cannot be perfect for
employee. The letter of retirement can be customized
easily according to needs of the individual employee.
You can copy and paste this sample
retirement letter into Microsoft Word or Work Perfect and then
modify the names and dates as they pertain to you.
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Dear Manager:
After I read the
Quintessential Careers
Review of How to Retire Happy, Wild,
and
Free, I
purchased this wonderful retirement book by
Ernie J.
Zelinski.
This was
the retirement
book that ultimately
helped me make a big decision in my
life.
Ernie
Zelinski tackles retirement with the glee of
someone in the desert who finds a bottle of
chilled water.
There
are several keys to a happy retirement, he
says, including:
- You are never
too young to retire.
- Retiring too
late means you don’t get another chance
to do it right.
- Your wealth is
where your friends are.
- Be happy while
you are alive because you are a long
time dead.
- It’s better to
live rich than to die rich.
-
Retirement health
is one of the best
retirement
gifts
that you can give
yourself.
- Helping others
can make life more worthwhile and you
happier than you have ever
been.
- Forget how old
you are - this becomes more important
the older you get.
- Don’t leave
this world with songs unsung that you
would like to sing.
- Retirement is
the beginning of life - not the
end.
After
reading the book, I realized that my retirement
time is now.
Please accept this as my letter of
intent to retire effective October 30,
2015 after serving Zen Air Inc. for
30 years and 5 months.
I
wish to take this opportunity to extend my
gratitude to everyone at ZenAir for
the cooperation, understanding, and
support during my employment here. I would also
like to express my appreciation to the
management and my other colleagues for
their support and friendship throughout my stay
here.
Please forward to me all the necessary
documentation and information pertinent to the
retirement process and information on the
complete benefit plan for retiring
employees.
Many thanks to all of you again. It has
been a privilege to work with you and a memory
I will always cherish.
My very
best wishes to everyone.
Sincerely,
Ben
Airdrie
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Retirement Quotes
to Use in Your
Retirement Letters
Quotations about retirement can add humor and body
to retirement letters.
Here are some of my favorite retirement quotations
that you may want to use.
#1 of Four Retirement
Quotations to Use in Letters for
Retirement
By the
age of 65, most of us have accomplished whatever
work-related goals we are going to reach. If you
haven't done it by then, chances are you aren't going
to do it. Take the retirement, take the pension, take
the Social Security, and sail off into the
sunset.
- Sue
Lasky
#2 of Four Retirement Quotes
to Use in Sample
Retirement Letters
I retired
early for health reasons - my company was sick of me
and I was sick of them.
- Unknown wise person
#3 of Four Retirement Quotes
to Use in Goodbye Letters for
Work
Retirement is wonderful if you
have two essentials - much to live on and much
to live for. I believe that I now have
both.
- Author
Unknown
#4 of Four Retirement
Quotations to Use in a Job Farewell
Letter
The
money’s no better in retirement but the hours are!
- Unknown wise person
NOTE: Also
See:
Sample Retirement Letters on the
Retirement Quotes Cafe
Retirment Letters on The Joy of Being
Retired
You can also check out
Retirement Letters and Fan Mail about
How to Retire Happy, Wild, and
Free.
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