Astera Credit Union Membership

How to Join Astera Credit Union

Astera Credit Union membership eligibility includes, but is not limited to, the following:

If you live, work, attend school, or worship in one of the below counties:

• Allegan
• Barry
• Calhoun
• Clinton
• Eaton
• Genesee
• Gratiot
• Ingham
• Ionia
• Jackson
• Kalamazoo
• Kent
• Lake
• Livingston
• Mecosta
• Montcalm
• Muskegon
• Newaygo
• Ottawa
• Saginaw
• Shiawassee
• Washtenaw

• Employees of General Motors and affiliated companies who work at General Motors Corporation facilities in our supported counties.
• Employees of certain payroll groups once providing payroll deduction to the Co-op Credit Union, Lansing, Michigan and Auto Body Workers Credit Union, Ionia Michigan.
• Members of record of the Co-op Credit Union, Lansing, Michigan and Auto Body Workers Credit Union, Ionia, Michigan, at the time of merger with Astera Credit Union.
• Employees or members of employer groups or other organized groups which provide membership to the credit union and are located in the Michigan counties. Each group must provide a written request for service to the credit union. The Commissioner may permanently or temporarily revoke the power to add groups under this provision at the Commissioner’s discretion.
• Persons retired as pensioners or annuitants from the above employment.
• Any person who receives a retirement annuity, pension, social security, or similar retirement payment from private or government sources, and lives in, or belongs to a retirement organization located in our supported counties.
• Employees of this credit union.
• Any person residing in Michigan who has membership in the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum.
• Members and immediate families of the foregoing.
• Any legal entity that is comprised, for the most part, of the same general group as the membership of the credit union outlined above.
• A spouse of a deceased member if accepted into membership prior to remarriage.