A number of benefits are administered on a pre-tax basis. He may take a modification from his adjusted gross income for the full amount of pension he receives from that fund. (d) Senior judges, justices, and magistrates. the state contributes only 4.69 percent. If a question arises regarding the status of an individual as a leased employee, the board has final authority to decide the question. The Legislature further finds and declares that it has the need for qualified employees and that in many cases an employee of the Legislature will retire and be available to return to work for the Legislature as a per diem employee. Once PEIA receives, reviews and processes the form, you will be moved into the Humana Plan and receive a welcome package. Your pay (salary) was determined at the time you were hired, based on your job classification, your qualifications, and your agency's financial determination. :G$Jv4{+G|7dPBs4[cg|:0pVk1/ 5
, July 3, 2014. About the Opportunity. DIVISION OF REGULATORY AND FISCAL AFFAIRS. You can visit customer service at PEIA to pick up a retirement packet or you can contact PEIA customer service at 1-888-680-7342 to requestthat a retirement packet be mailed to you. (d) Any employee, as defined in 5-10-2 of this code, who has concurrent employment in an additional job or jobs which would require the employee to be a member of the West Virginia Deputy Sheriff Retirement System, the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System, the Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System or the West Virginia Emergency Medical Services Retirement System shall abide by the concurrent employment statutory provisions of said retirement system and shall participate in only one retirement system administered by the board. calendar years as either temporary employees or full-time employees or a combination thereof, as certified by the clerk of the house in which the employee served, shall receive a service credit of 12 months for each regular session served, as certified by the clerk of the house in which the employee served: , That the amendments made to this subsection during the 2002 regular session of the Legislature only apply to employees of the Legislature who are employed by the Legislature as either temporary employees or full-time employees as of January 1, 2002, or who become employed by the Legislature as temporary or full-time employees for the first time after January 1, 2002. Civilian employees of the West Virginia State Police are members of the Public . %%EOF
These payments include, but are not limited to, attendance or performance bonuses, one-time flat fee or lump sum payments, payments paid as a result of excess budget, or employee recognition payments. If his or her reemployment is for a period of one year or longer, his or her annuity shall be recalculated and he or she shall be granted an increased annuity due to the additional employment, the annuity to be computed according to 5-10-22 of this code. On this page, you'll find information relating to your pay. The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) enforces state and federal environmental laws in West Virginia to help protect our air, water, and land. hbbd```b`` 3Xf/`v=`3.HA`hHd2c 0;D'/&0[l0;D7d`bd` b`q
Plan provides a complement to help you save toward your financial goals in . Repayment of withdrawals shall be as directed by the Board of Trustees. - any year) Retirement Calculators for the Consolidated Public Retirement Board (CPRB) - You will need to click on your particular retirement plan on the right side of the page to see if a calculator is available. If his or her reemployment is for a period less than one year, he or she may request in writing that the employee and employer retirement contributions submitted during reemployment be credited to the participating public employer pursuant to 5-10-44 of this code, and his or her previous annuity shall be reinstated effective the first day of the month following termination of reemployment and the boards receipt of written notice thereof. Repayment of withdrawals shall be as directed by the Board of Trustees. Pay Days Holiday/Pay Day Pay/Holiday Calendar Columbus Day Veteran's Day Thanksgiving Day Day After Thanksgiving Christmas Eve (Full Day) New Year's Eve (Full Day) October 11 June 21 New Year's Day Martin Luther King Day President's Day Memorial Day 2021 November 25 November 26 November 11 Holidays January 1 January 18 February 15 May 31 July 5 . Service of 55 days of a regular session constitutes an absolute presumption of service for a complete legislative session and service of 27 days of a 30-day regular session occurring prior to 1971 constitutes an absolute presumption of service for a complete legislative session. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, a retired magistrate who is recalled and assigned to temporary service as a senior magistrate by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals may receive per diem compensation pursuant to the requirements of 50-1-6a of this code while continuing to receive his or her annuity. Click herefor more information on the West Virginia Retirement Plus Program. If you are Medicare Eligible and currently on The Health Plan when you retire, you and your dependents will be switched to the PEIA PPB Plan A upon retirement. Retirement; Non-State Agency Enrollment & Withdrawal; New Employee; Video Library; . Call: 1-888-680-7342 Email: peia.help@wv.gov. Members. Manage My Benefits. -Expecting a first retirement check or a refund? The CPRB administers: PERS: Public Employees Retirement System, PERS Tier II, TRS: Teachers' Retirement System, TRS Tier II, TDC Plan: Teachers' Defined Contribution System. If you are a Medicare Retiree, your agency participates in PEIA retirement insurance and you want to continue PEIA Health Insurance, you will need visit your Retirement Board and your HR Department. Contact: Retirement Benefits Contact: Electronic Payments Division Consolidated Public Retirement Board West Virginia State Auditor's Office 1.800.654.4406 1.800.500.4079. (g) Notwithstanding the provisions of 5-10-27b of this code, any publicly elected member of the legislative body of any political subdivision or of the State Legislature, the Clerk of the House of Delegates, and the Clerk of the Senate may elect to commence receiving in-service retirement distributions from this system upon attaining the age of 70 and one-half years: , That the member is eligible to retire under the provisions of 5-10-20 or 5-10-21 of this code: , That the member elects to stop actively contributing to the system while receiving the in-service distributions. 32 0 obj
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Service credit awarded for legislative employment pursuant to this section shall be used for the purpose of calculating that members retirement annuity, pursuant to 5-10-22 of this code, and determining eligibility as it relates to credited service, notwithstanding any other provision of this section. Use Self Service to: View your account details. Title: 2023 Retirement Calendar.xls Author: WVA0012 (f) Any employee may purchase retroactive service credit for periods of employment in which contributions were not deducted from the employees pay. (2) For purposes of this section, employees of the Joint Committee on Government and Finance are entitled to the same benefits as employees of the House of Delegates or the Senate: , That for joint committee employees whose terms of employment are otherwise classified as temporary, employment in preparation for regular sessions, certified by the legislative manager as required by the Legislature for its regular sessions, shall be considered the same as employment during regular sessions to meet service credit requirements for sessions served. If you wish to elect new or increased life insurance as a retired employee, you must enroll and submit medical information during the calendar month of retirement or the two following calendar months. H|S1St 5-10D-7 of this code and Section 401 (a) (17) of the Internal Revenue Code: , That the provisions of 5-10-22h of this code are not applicable to the amendments made to this subdivision during the 2011 regular session of the Legislature; (A) The average of the highest annual compensation received by a member, including a member of the Legislature who participates in the retirement system in the year 1971 or thereafter, during any period of three consecutive years of credited service contained within the members 15 years of credited service immediately preceding the date his or her employment with a participating public employer last terminated: , That for persons who were first hired on or after July 1, 2015, any period of five consecutive years of contributing service contained within the members 15 years of credited service immediately preceding the date his or her employment with a participating public employer last terminated; or. Please contact your agency . Want to make a difference in your community. (e) If a member retires and is then subsequently elected to a public office or is subsequently appointed to hold an elected public office, or is a former employee of the Legislature who has been reemployed by the Legislature, he or she has the option, notwithstanding subsection (c) of this section, to either: (1) Continue to receive payment of his or her annuity while holding public office or during any reemployment of a former employee of the Legislature on a per diem basis, in addition to the salary he or she may be entitled to as an office holder or as a per diem reemployed former employee of the Legislature; or. The full premium for the months from the date of retirement to the date of the first retirement check will be withdrawn. These payments include, but are not limited to, attendance or performance bonuses, one-time flat fee or lump sum payments, payments paid as a result of excess budget, or employee recognition payments. Employees of the State Legislature whose terms of employment are otherwise classified as temporary and who are employed to perform services required by the Legislature during the interim time between regular sessions shall receive service credit of one month for each 10 days served during the interim between regular sessions, which interim days shall be cumulatively calculated so that any 10 days, regardless of calendar month or year, shall be calculated toward any award of one month of service credit: , That no more than one year of service may be credited to any temporary legislative employee for all service rendered by that employee in any calendar year and no days may be carried over by a temporary legislative employee from one calendar year to another calendar year where the member has received a full year credit for that year. hb``e``2` Y9Y8xa3 fc`k If his or her reemployment is for a period less than one year, he or she may request in writing that the employee and employer retirement contributions submitted during reemployment be credited to the participating public employer pursuant to 5-10-44 of this code, and his or her previous annuity shall be reinstated effective the first day of the month following termination of reemployment and the boards receipt of written notice thereof. Expecting a first retirement check or a refund? calendar years referenced in this section: , That the employee has not retired prior to the effective date of the amendments made to this section in the 2002 regular session of the Legislature. Another alternative is to continue in the PPB plan you have when you retire. endstream
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Consolidated Public Retirement Board. WV457. PERS-Public Employees Retirement System 4101 MacCorkle Avenue, SE Charleston, WV 25304-1636 Phone: (304) 558-5455 Toll Free: (800) 654-4406 Fax: (304) 558-1394 The board shall have final power to decide whether the payments shall be considered compensation for purposes of this article; (9) "Contributing service" means service rendered by a member within this state and for which the member made contributions to a public retirement system account of this state, to the extent credited him or her as provided by this article; (10) "Credited service" means the sum of a members prior service credit, military service credit, workers compensation service credit and contributing service credit standing to his or her credit as provided in this article; (11) "Employee" means any person who serves regularly as an officer or employee, full time, on a salary basis, whose tenure is not restricted as to temporary or provisional appointment, in the service of, and whose compensation is payable, in whole or in part, by any political subdivision, or an officer or employee whose compensation is calculated on a daily basis and paid monthly or on completion of assignment, including technicians and other personnel employed by the West Virginia National Guard whose compensation, in whole or in part, is paid by the federal government: Provided, That an employee of the Legislature whose term of employment is otherwise classified as temporary and who is employed to perform services required by the Legislature for its regular sessions or during the interim between regular sessions and who has been or is employed during regular sessions or during the interim between regular sessions in seven five or more consecutive calendar years, as certified by the clerk of the house in which the employee served, is an employee, any provision to the contrary in this article notwithstanding, and is entitled to credited service in accordance with provisions of 5-10-14 of this code: Provided, however, That members of the legislative body of any political subdivision and commissioners of the West Virginia Claims Commission are employees receiving one year of service credit for each one-year term served and prorated service credit for any partial term served, anything contained in this article to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided further, That only a compensated board member of a participating public employer appointed to a board of a nonlegislative body for the first time on or after July 1, 2014, who normally is required to work 12 months per year and 1040 hours of service per year is an employee. In addition, employees are offered the voluntary opportunity to participate in the West Virginia Retirement Plus Program, a supplemental retirement plan designed to provide an extra savings alternative for all State, county, city and other political subdivision employees. You will need to fill out a. . . !L\m"\0F@0183|IRYE^LHh$lUwzJK9JkF&}1z*xqi\h:v3FB::F#s+O(sAU:_QKX Iggy%,'k66Z\kfmE+NfGSr0uYJ'f%7Y0G82+ QkJNbER}5oNC74Qu6J|D~]+c~;sx
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N3!DBei|r)}|~aznbYTI 5=KAm`GT@U3X@&hn]Ql~K/:3TEHw WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT ACT. (h) The board of trustees shall grant service credit to any former or present member of the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund who has been a contributing member of this system for more than three years for service previously credited by the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund if the member transfers all of his or her contributions to the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund to the system created in this article, including repayment of any amounts withdrawn any time from the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund by the member seeking the transfer allowed in this subsection: Provided, That there shall be added by the member to the amounts transferred or repaid under this subsection an amount which shall be sufficient to equal the contributions he or she would have made had the member been under the Public Employees Retirement System during the period of his or her membership in the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund, excluding contributions on lump sum payment for annual leave, plus interest at a rate determined by the board. Based on our analysis of West Virginia's teacher retirement plan, it earned an overall grade of F. West Virginia earned a F for providing adequate retirement benefits for teachers and a F on . . A BILL to amend and reenact 5-10-2, 5-10-14, 5-10-17, and 5-10-48 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all. Login. Finally, in West . This retirement program is similar to a 401(k) plan in structure except that it is designed to supplement a participant's primary retirement plan. Reemployment after retirement; options for holder of elected public office. If that day falls on a weekend or holiday, payments will be issued on the last business day of the previous month. The CPRB administers 10 different plans: PERS: Public Employees Retirement System PERS Tier II TRS: Teachers' Retirement System TRS Tier II TDC Plan: Teachers' Defined Contribution System PLAN A: WV State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund PLAN B: West Virginia State Police Retirement System DSRS: Deputy Sheriffs' Retirement System Public Employees Insurance Agency. The membership of the retirement system consists of the following persons: (a) All employees, as defined in 5-10-2 of this code, who are in the employ of a political subdivision the day preceding the date it becomes a participating public employer and who continue in the employ of the participating public employer on and after that date shall become members of the retirement system; and all persons who become employees of a participating public employer on or after that date shall thereupon become members of the system; except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c) and (d) of this section. Subsequent to your hire are other issues that affect how much of your salary you bring home. (h) The board of trustees shall grant service credit to any former or present member of the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund who has been a contributing member of this system for more than three years for service previously credited by the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund if the member transfers all of his or her contributions to the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund to the system created in this article, including repayment of any amounts withdrawn any time from the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund by the member seeking the transfer allowed in this subsection: , That there shall be added by the member to the amounts transferred or repaid under this subsection an amount which shall be sufficient to equal the contributions he or she would have made had the member been under the Public Employees Retirement System during the period of his or her membership in the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund, excluding contributions on lump sum payment for annual leave, plus interest at a rate determined by the board. &0z@MjTgd0
The Legislature hereby further finds and declares that the interests of the public are served when persons having retired from public employment are permitted, within certain limitations, to render post-retirement employment in positions of public service, either in elected or appointed capacities.
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