About Us

Our Mission

To help our members manage their financial life by providing highly personal products and services.

Our History

Rome Teachers Federal Credit Union is a not-for-profit, member-owned financial institution whose charter was granted through the National Credit Union Administration. We were founded in 1958 by seven employees of the Rome Consolidated School District to serve its employees and their immediate family members. Our purpose is to promote thrift among our members, by affording them an opportunity for accumulating their savings, and to create for them a source of credit for provident or productive purposes.

Over the years, our products and services offered has grown, along with the employee groups we serve. We now serve twelve local school districts, as well as the Jervis Public Library, Rome Community Theater, and the Lewis County Health System.
We spent many years operating within a building of the Rome City School District, until 1998 when we moved into our own building, where we are located today.

Membership Eligibility

RT Federal Credit Union is a SEG based credit union that serves numerous school communities. SEG stands for Select Employee Groups. Schools and other related groups that are affiliated with the credit union are eligible for membership.

Eligible members include:

All students, employees, and retirees from:

Adirondack Central Schools, Boonville, New York
Camden Central Schools, Camden, New York
Canastota Central School District, Canastota, New York
Holland Patent School, Holland Patent, New York
Madison Central Schools, Madison, New York
Poland Central School District, Poland, New York
Rome Catholic School, Rome, New York
Rome City Schools, Rome, New York
South Lewis Central Schools, Turin, New York
Westmoreland Central School, Westmoreland, New York

Employees and retirees from:

Jervis Public Library of Rome, New York
Lewis County Health System, Lowville, New York
Madison-Oneida BOCES, Verona, New York
NYS School for the Deaf, Rome, New York

Members from:

Rome Community Theater, Rome, New York

Additional Eligibility

As well as Immediate Family Members of Member Owners, spouse, children, brother, sister, parents, and grandparents.

If you do not see your school or community listed above and would like to be eligible for membership, please contact the credit union and let us know. We would be happy to reach out to your school district.

NCUA Insurance

Is my money safe in a credit union?

Federally insured credit unions offer a safe place for you to save your money, with deposits insured up to at least $250,000 per individual depositor. The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is the independent agency that administers the NCUSIF. Like the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund, the NCUSIF is a federal insurance fund backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government.

MyCreditUnion.gov is the NCUA’s consumer website that provides consumers and credit union members of all ages and life stages important financial literacy and personal finance information and resources.