Choose the forms packet below that is applicable to your situation then complete and submit all forms in that packet.. The percentage of retirees earning more than $100,000 comprise roughly 1.5% of ALL PERS retirees. All on sprues, unused. 0000004387 00000 n The first question is relatively easy for me to answer, but it seems hard for those not mathematically gifted to understand. Please read the notes below before posting comments, or emailing me. Of course, there was a near equal number of comments reporting on how bad the public employees were in their own states. They also play to the Oregon Business Alliance’s package of proposals that will be delivered to the Legislature for its consideration in 2019. Important Announcement. If you wish to help support the ongoing costs of running this blog, please consider a small donation to defray basic costs. Any tax increase, except maybe on cigarettes or liquor or marijuana, WILL BE referred to the voters, and the likely outcome is defeat. (Some of it is so impenetrable that even I don’t have the patience to try to decipher it). Special Sessions are not that common, usually deal with items that can be managed in a one or two day session, and whose agenda depends on bills drafted before the session and upon which agreement among the participants has largely been sorted out before the session begins. Following the income tax remedy negotiations, the employers were expected to cover the cost of this in their current contributions. Thus, I expect a lot of anti-PERS legislation to be proposed during this period of extreme political pressure and information/leadership vacuum. 0000005103 00000 n It is the mission of PERS to provide: • Employers. The bad news. View daily OR weather updates, watch videos and photos, join the discussion in forums. Collectively, these changes will reduce employer contribution rates by about 5.43%, pretty much the amount that they would go up in 2021, other things being equal. The NYT piece focuses on the just-retired President of OHSU and the Football Coach. Marc Feldesman, site owner and publisher. 0000050988 00000 n Kate Brown has finally been elected to her OWN term as Governor, and the Ds now control both Legislative bodies with supermajorities. There is NOTHING sinister about this bill. This opinion failed that test miserably. That means that they can pass any revenue bills without support from a single R.   Whether this is a good thing or not remains to be seen. h�b```f``�d`c`�j`�g@ ~V da�X��O��a/*`�� ?d6�B]z��? First, all Tier 1 members (those hired before 1996), were initially promised (at the time of their hire) that their PERS pensions would NOT be subject to Oregon state income tax. Put another way, 98.5% of these retirees earn less than $100K (the median is about $27,000 per year, and the average is about $32,000). As of 2018, all school districts within Josephine County have school tax rates at least 20% below the statutory $5 per $1000 maximum, while the large school districts in the larger areas have maxed out their $5 rate, and have also received approval from the State to form local improvement districts (“local option”) to tax outside the maximum. The plan earned a 6.64 percent rate of return on its investments in 2019 ($1.7 billion), which is still below the plan’s annual expectation of 7.75 percent. SB 1049 contains a whole passel of changes. Most of the cases where new retirees earn far more than their Final Average Salaries are instances where the employee has long been inactive, but not retired. (In an exquisitely agonizing piece of irony, the 2000 employer-initiated litigation that led to the 2003 reforms was about the Board FAILING to fund the same reserves adequately). It has been a long time between postings. I’m back from the far side of the world. All signs point to both parties working exceptionally hard to increase their numbers in the Legislature. My local city charges me significant water and sewer usage fees, which covers a significant portion of their operating budget. Finally, the article continues to blame the 2008 stock market meltdown for much of today’s current problem. 11 months ago No Downloads. The court argued that the blended approach, used by PERS following the Moro ruling on the COLA and, to some extent on the Tax Remedy, didn't necessarily have to apply here because, well...they said so. This changes every year, so look at any check starting August 1 and before August 1 of the following year. I wouldn't want to still be in the system unretired before the Legislature convenes in 2021. I repeat my long-held, and frequently repeated maxim - ELECTIONS MATTER! Geen Reclame + Exclusieve content + HD Video's + Annuleer Op Elk Moment. I expect a heavy recruiting campaign by the unions to raise employee awareness of the value of union membership. It limited total property taxes to no more than 1.5% of assessed value (with exceptions for self-inflicted voter-approved levies); Second, it directed that about 90% of school funding come from state general fund revenue (State Income Taxes), while allowing local school districts to assess up to $5 per thousand of assessed value on real property (this is 180 degrees different from pre-Measure 5 rules, where 90% of local school funding came from property taxes and 10% came from the State). Anyone hired after October 1991 was not eligible for any income tax remedy; their pensions are 100% taxable with no offsetting remedy. After some discussion, the Board adopted the rate collaring method, which limited increases to employer rates to 3% if the system was less than 80% funded; 6% if the funding dropped below 70%. Complicating this is the fact that Tier 2 has a limit at the IRS threshold (currently $280,000) as does Tier 3 (OPSRP). For example, some agencies allow employees to accrue sick leave over their careers as an incentive to reduce absenteeism, and rewards employees by counting “HALF” the value of the sick leave in Final Average Salary calculations; other agencies do not allow its employees to accrue sick leave). Under those circumstances, I can say reasonably confidently that PERS is just too complex for a Special Session to deal with. �4 ���h�H�X mH@���22^cC8C��Y�92��. Posts: 1 Member Details; helperkid101 . Worse still, the NYT article may be the wedge that finally creates the schism between the older members with better retirement benefits and the younger employees in the system who have less generous benefits. I am not predicting anything here. 0000066543 00000 n Converting statutory language into software is a daunting task when language is ambiguous). This is just a first pass through the bigger pieces of SB 1049. 1-866-473-7768. There seems to be some confusion following the State Economist's report on September 23, 2020. By the time of the 2021 Legislature, we should have a pretty good idea of how much financial disruption Covid-19 has caused in Oregon, in the US, and worldwide. That is more than halfway through the next biennium. 0% 1. Questions:  Does the PERS cap (not the IRS cap) prevent employees from contributing past $195,000 of earned salary? 0000051073 00000 n By 2007, PERS had amassed nearly $1 billion in its contingency reserve, an account designed as a rainy day fund to protect the system from unexpected events. I'm also not offering much in the way of advice to people because events of today have upended a great deal of what we thought may have been the case three months ago. I don't have any idea what form it will take, but legislation that didn't make it out of committee during the 2017 and 2019 sessions look likely to be revisited again. To get to 100 percent funded local and state governments would have to increase taxes by about $200 billion per year, from $153 billion today to $353 billion by about 2025; or $15,426 per household per year. Let’s do the math. Not only do I expect 2019 to shadow a “hard rain falling”, I also expect “Lawyers, Guns, and Money” because the “shit has hit the fan.”  I wish it weren’t going to get nasty, ugly, and brutish, but I’m expecting the 2019 session to be one of the most contentious in my 48 year history living in Oregon, and PERS will be center-stage in the action. 0000002920 00000 n Not surprisingly, a large majority of these people end with benefits exceeding their Final Average Salary. Website: www.nvpers.org. Additional perks are available depending on the level of contribution. In a move that defied all logic, the Legislature not only passed the legislation, but it allocated more than 10% of the projected savings to agencies to spend in the 2013-15 biennium. Double Lung Transplant as a Result of Post COVID-19 Fibrosis . When we have an open attack from our current President on “fake news”, it is disheartening to consider the prospect that a major source of “unfake news”  has committed the very sin we’ve been arguing against, and turning a non-story about a couple of outliers into a serious news piece. You aren’t going to be happy with my answer. He notes:  “The system (PERS) is run at the state level, but it is bankrolled in large part by obligatory contributions from local governments.”  Again, this superintendent must be completely ignorant of Ballot Measure 5, which passed his county overwhelmingly (and statewide by a smaller margin) in 1990. 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