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The Michigan Office of Retirement Services (ORS) administers retirement programs for Michigan's state employees, public school employees, judges, state police, and National Guard. ORS also provides various retiree healthcare benefits, including traditional insurance plans, Personal Healthcare Funds, and Health Reimbursement Accounts.
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 Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is an agency of the United States Department of Labor responsible for administering, regulating and enforcing the provisions of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Title I: Protection of Employee Benefit Rights. Title I protects employees' rights to their benefits. The following are some of the ways in which it achieves that goal: Participants must be provided plan summaries. Employers are required to report information about the plan to the Labor Department and provide it to participants upon request.
The will be raising payments to town retirees by three percent this year despite no comparable increase in inflation or Social Security benefits.
Retirees get another year's reprieve until benefit cuts happen, or until Congress is forced to act. And, if benefit cuts do happen, they'll be smaller than anticipated.
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.
Military service members can receive Social Security benefits in addition to their military retirement benefits. For details, visit our webpage for veterans, available at www.ssa.gov/people/veterans .
The Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) is the retirement system for employees within the United States civil service. FERS 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. FERS consists of three major components:
The payouts went to retiring Joliet employees cashing out their unused vacation, sick leave banks and, in the cases of members of the Joliet Police Department, sizeable comp time accruals.