Employer newsletters

PERS’ monthly online newsletter Employer News provides important information for PERS-participating employers. Employers are automatically subscribed through their EDX account. Current and past newsletters are linked below.

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2025

May 2025

• Closing for summer or changing your schedule?
• New PERS policies that affect employers
• Granting EDX access
• Final earnings crediting rates
• Take the employer satisfaction survey
• Learn PERS reporting
• 2024 member annual statements on their way

April 2025: The annual retirement edition

• How to retire from PERS
• Helping employees prepare for taxes in retirement
• Adding wages or changing data after retirement
• Tips for success: Hiring back a new PERS retiree
• Annual employer survey next month
• Employer Incentive Fund update

March 2025

• Employer Incentive Fund kicks off April 1
• Overview of 2025 Oregon legislative session
• Social Security Fairness Act and PERS benefits
• Preliminary earnings crediting rates
• Announcing new EDX File Format Guide

February 2025

• Deadline to get all 2024 Regular reports posted
• 2024 Superhero Gold Star Awards
• New cycle of Employer Incentive Fund Program starting this spring
• The PERS Risk Assessment survey is legit
• Update addresses in time for member annual statements
• Employer Rate Projection Tool updated

January 2025

• Member redirect and salary limit updates for 2025
• New way to give feedback on resources
• What causes contribution rate changes?
• Controlling your rate: the hidden costs of ‘pension spiking’
• Annual OPSRP loss-of- membership status applied in January
• Shoot for the star
• PERS 2024 annual reports published

2024

December 2024

• Changing an employee's qualification status
• December reporting: How to ensure service credit for summer months
• Contribution start dates for employees hired in December
• New 2025 salary limit and Member Redirect rates coming in January
• How to report an employee death
• Reminder: OPSRP Police and Fire normal retirement age dropping January 1

November 2024

• Actuarial valuation reports available online
• Protect employee privacy: do not email full Social Security numbers
• Spot scams: Beware of people posing as PERS employees
• Help your employees stay informed about PERS
• Fall cleanup: finding and fixing suspended records
• EDX tip: Retiree wages are subject salary

October 2024

• OPSRP Police and Fire retirement age changing in 2025
• New rates and valuations available this month
• Avoid suspended records and reports: check part-time employees’ 2024 hours
• PERS Expo materials still available
• EDX and OMS offline October 12 and 13

September 2024

• Tips for hiring a PERS retiree
• New Social Security Administration webpage for Oregon Section 218 employers
• PERS Expo is October 1
• Satisfaction survey presentation
• EDX tip: How to report lump sums

August 2024

• Tips for reporting a new hire in a special situation
• Teaching your new employee about PERS
• Announcing a new cycle of the Employer Incentive Fund
• Tip: Protecting employee personal information when calling ESC for a status check
• For schools: Submitting a new-hire record in September

July 2024

• Who needs to fill out a preretirement beneficiary designation form?
• Puzzled by purchases?
• Reminder: July 1 was the OPSRP membership start date for December hires
• Thank you for taking the employer satisfaction survey

June 2024

• Keeping your PERS account healthy
• Actuarial update
• Reporting military leave
• EDX tip: Do not 'save' a suspended record unless you correct it

May 2024

• Reporting wages after last day of service
• Closing for the summer? Let us know
• 2023 member annual statements
• Final earnings crediting rates
• Top 5 reasons to take the PERS Employer Satisfaction Survey

April 2024

• The PERS retirement package
• How PERS calculates pensions
• Navigating the road to retirement
• Adding wages or changing data after retirement
• Gold star awards
• RHIA credit explained
• New online resources
• Employer satisfaction survey
  

March 2024

• New way to prioritize emails from PERS
• How to print this newsletter (or save as PDF)
• New and updated employer resources
• New Preliminary earnings crediting rates
• What is the PERS Employer Advisory Group?
• Update to Employer Rate Projection Tool
• Upcoming events
• EDX tip: downloading your invoice
  

February 2024

• Deadline to make changes to a retiree’s account
• Reporting Work Share payments
• Preparing for member annual statements
• Employer Rate Projection Tool updated
• Get all 2023 reports posted this month
  

January 2024

• New year, new look for Employer News
• New and updated employer resources
• Annual OPSRP loss-of-membership (LOM) status applied in January
• Salary Limit and Member Redirect 2024 changes
• Shoot for the star
• 2023 PERS annual reports published
  

2023

December 2023

• Changes to PERS from 2023 legislative session
• Receiving service credit for summer months
• What is the PERS Risk Assessment Team survey?
• Contribution start date for employees hired in December
• New 2024 Salary Limit and Member Redirect rates coming in January
• Controlling your rate: the hidden costs of ‘pension spiking’

November 2023

• When to report employee time off to PERS
• Want to save your organization money? Check for suspended records
• PERS disability questions and answers
• How to report an employee death

October 2023

• Make sure employees are still eligible (or not) for PERS this year
• Do you have ‘inactive’ employees?
• New employer reporting guides and videos
• It’s time for PERS Expo

September 2023

• Use the right status code to hire retirees
• Always use employees’ full names
• Update your contact list
• Tip for reporting contributions for a new employee at the end of their wait time

August 2023

• Results of 2023 legislative session
• Three steps to hiring retirees
• Use updated beneficiary forms
• Reminder: Include your employer number
• Registration open for ‘Destination: Retirement,’ the annual PERS Expo
• EDX tip: The right way to enter employee addresses

July 2023

• New rates effective July 1
• Work After Retirement program extended
• Reminder: July 1 was OPSRP membership start date for December hires
• Thank you for taking the Employer Satisfaction Survey
  

June 2023

• New PERS website coming soon
• Fielding employee questions about applying for PERS retirement
  
• Attention, new retirees: Do these two things before returning to work
• How to report IAP contributions for employees who have different contribution types
  

May 2023

• Final earnings crediting rates
• Instructions for changing your Automated Clearing House (ACH) bank
  
• Take the PERS annual satisfaction survey
• Remember to terminate working retirees
  
• Notify PERS if taking a summer break from reporting
• 2022 member annual statements on their way
• Beneficiary forms require a real signature
  

April 2023

• Two new online resources available now
• Choose your PERS email topics
• How to fill out a Certification of Individual Contract (CIC) form
• EDX tip: Reporting wages during employee’s six-month wait time

• Overview of 2023 Oregon legislative session
• Delayed prior-year earnings (PYE) billing
• Preliminary earnings crediting update
• PERS Health Insurance Program (PHIP) 2023 materials
• EDX tip: Data verification request

February 2023

• Let ESC help you clean up your reports
• 2022 Gold Star Awards
• Employer Rate Projection Tool (ERPT) updated
• Make sure employees’ mailing addresses are correct
• EDX tip: Why do only local-government employers use work period dates?
  

January 2023

• Paid Leave Oregon deductions begin this month
• Annual OPSRP loss-of-membership status applied in January
• Salary Limit and Member Redirect 2023 changes
• Health insurance for PERS retirees

2022

December 2022

• Preview of Paid Leave Oregon and PERS reporting — part two
• New 2023 Salary Limit and Member Redirect rates coming in January
• Employer Incentive Fund update for year-end 2022
• Controlling your rate: the hidden costs of ‘pension spiking’
  
• Revised W-4P retirement tax form
• Contribution start date for employees hired in December
• Reporting an employee death
  

November 2022

• Announcing updated employer manuals
• Refreshed EDX design coming November 18
• Actuarial news: Side accounts and liabilities maturing in 2027
• Avoid suspended reports: Check your part-time employees' hours
• Update your contacts in EDX
• Put "pending benefit" emails at the top of your to-do list
  

• EDX getting a makeover next month
• Actuarial valuations coming this month
• Results of the annual Employer Satisfaction Survey
• Attend the PERS Expo this week
• Addressing your 2022 suspended records
  

• Member Choice open September 1–30
• 2022 PERS Expo coming next month
• 2021 actuarial valuations available this fall
• Preview of Paid Leave Oregon and PERS reporting
• Tip to help working retirees avoid repaying their retirement payments
  

August 2022

• What you need to know about hiring retirees
• Important: Use your employer number
• Prior-year earnings invoices go paperless
• Registration open for the annual PERS Expo
• Employer Incentive Fund (EIF) update

July 2022

• Announcing new and improved employer statements
• Help us improve your actuarial valuations
• What is the Multnomah Fire District #10 UAL rate?
• Senate Bill 1522 clarifies out-of-state rules for charter schools
• Reminder: July 1 was the OPSRP membership start date for December hires
• Thank you for completing the Employer Satisfaction Survey
  

June 2022

May 2022

• PERS offices are open
  
• Employer Incentive Fund (EIF) update
  
• Take the annual survey
  
• Calculating unused sick leave
  
• 2021 member annual statements on their way in May
  
• How to report bonuses for school employees
  

April 2022

• Help with suspended records
  
• 2020 Gold Star Awards
  
• Final earnings crediting
  
• 2022 legislative wrap-up
  
• Updated UAL Resolution Program educational guides
  
• EDX tip: Reporting average overtime for a new employee
  

March 2022

• Understanding PERS retiree health insurance
  
• Update on 2021 PERS Fund returns
  
• Preliminary earnings crediting update
  
• Legislative update
  

February 2022

• Annual Employer Rate Projection Tool (ERPT) update
• Improved financial modeling outlook
• 2021 year-end reconciliation: Resolving reporting issues
• Preparing for 2021 member annual statements
• We need your help
• What to do with a PERS debit notification email

January 2022

• New 2022 salary limits and requirements
• Access your actuarial valuation online
• Beware scam messages
• OPSRP loss-of-membership (LOM) status applied this month
• Continue 2021 year-end reconciliation

2021