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AFT Benefits
If you take the time, your membership can pay for itself in savings alone!
Our affiliation with AFT gives all members access to a variety of special discounts, promotions, and resources exclusive to members. From your phone bill to student loans to rental cars, members are eligible for tangible savings on everyday costs that aid in getting you perks you deserve for your hard work and dedication.
Join Texas AFT today to gain access to all of these resources.
Union Plus Savings Program
Summer Student Loan Assistance
AFT offers our members a wide range of money-saving programs and discounts that can often help cover the cost of your membership dues. Most of these are available through the Union Plus program, which means terrific savings for you on travel, pet care, mortgages, AT&T wireless service, life insurance, and much more!
You also can read about your national benefits at AFT, where you can access the site by using your member ID number.
If you haven’t yet received your member number or have lost your card, please call AFT at 202-393-8643.
AFT members have access to Summer, an online student loan management platform that can help you navigate your repayment and loan forgiveness options.
Summer’s borrower success team helps our members enroll in and manage the paperwork for income-driven repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness, find other debt relief programs that are available, and tailor student loan repayment options to their individual needs.
Share My Lesson
First Book
Need a lesson plan on a specific topic? Share My Lesson is a curated online database of high-quality lesson plans and resources — available to you for free. You can search by grade level or look at special collections designed to connect students with current events and themes.
AFT has partnered with First Book, a nonprofit that provides free and low-cost books and resources to students who need them. Through this partnership, Texas AFT has helped distribute nearly 1 million free books to Title 1 schools across the state.
Trauma Counseling
AFT members work hard—now more than ever—to educate, heal, help and serve our communities. Sometimes our own stress is compounded by a personal or workplace trauma; still, we struggle to be fully present for others. Now the AFT is offering a new, free benefit—trauma counseling—to provide help and healing for our members, whenever needed, wherever a member may be.
These AFT-paid trauma counseling sessions with highly trained therapists are completely private and set up to take advantage of the latest communication technologies—phone, text, video and even artificial intelligence. They are free and available to all active working members, including those on leave status. The broad list of covered injuries is both work-related and beyond, including:
24/7
Aggravated assault
Domestic violence
Sexual assault
Mass shootings/terrorist acts
Major disaster
At work
Bullied, harassed or threatened
Traumatized by witnessing a violent incident
Infection by contagious disease
Secondary trauma
Trauma Coverage is exclusively for AFT members. Visit AFT’s Members Only benefits page to get started.