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LACERA offers two tracks of retirement plans, for general members (civil servants) and for safety members (safety employees, including sheriff deputies and firefighters), further subdivided as follows:
The Michigan Public School Employees' Retirement System collects and compiles employee wage, contribution, and service information from approximately 549 K-12 districts, 46 public school academy/charter schools, 7 universities, 28 community colleges, 55 intermediate school districts, and 10 libraries.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 93–406, 88 Stat. 829, enacted September 2, 1974, codified in part at 29 U.S.C. ch. 18) is a U.S. federal tax and labor law that establishes minimum standards for pension plans in private industry.
In many states, public employee pension plans are known as Public Employee Retirement Systems (PERS). Pension benefits may or may not be changed after an employee is hired, depending on the state and plan, as well as hiring date, years of service, and grandfathering .
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the largest trade union of public employees in the United States. It represents 1.3 million public sector employees and retirees, including health care workers, corrections officers, sanitation workers, police officers, firefighters, and childcare providers.
Federal Employees Retirement System. The Federal Employees' Retirement System ( FERS) is the retirement system for employees within the United States civil service. FERS [1] became effective January 1, 1987, to replace the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and to conform federal retirement plans in line with those in the private sector.
California State Retirees (CSR) is the largest organization representing retired California state government employees. [ citation needed ] Organizing health care and pension benefits 36,000 members. It is an affiliate of the California State Employees Association headquartered in Sacramento, California .
The Civil Service Retirement System ( CSRS) is a public pension fund organized in 1920 that has provided retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for most civilian employees in the United States federal government.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is an American labor union representing over 750,000 employees of the federal government, about 5,000 employees of the District of Columbia, and a few hundred private sector employees, mostly in and around federal facilities.
In the United States, a 401 (k) plan is an employer-sponsored, defined-contribution, personal pension (savings) account, as defined in subsection 401 (k) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. [1] Periodic employee contributions come directly out of their paychecks, and may be matched by the employer. This pre-tax option is what makes 401 (k) plans ...