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Timestamp: 2018-03-23 10:59:26
Document Index: 235791486

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 473', '§ 4', '§ 17', '§ 7', '§ 17', '§ 5', '§ 7', '§ 10', '§ 13', '§ 19', '§ 297', '§ 277', '§ 1', '§ 11', '§ 4', '§ 4', '§ 472', '§ 473']

S: 473 C: 16 T: 3 - Funds The Vermont Statutes Online
Chapter 16: VERMONT EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM
Sub-Chapter 01: Generally
3 V.S.A. § 473. Funds
(1) Contributions deducted from the compensation of members together with any member contributions transferred thereto from the predecessor systems shall be accumulated in the Fund and separately recorded for each member. The amounts so transferred on account of group A members shall be allocated between regular and additional contributions. The amounts so allocated as regular contributions shall be determined as if the rate of contribution of four percent has been continuously in effect in the predecessor system from which such amounts were transferred and the balance of any amount so transferred on account of any group A member shall be deemed additional contributions. In the case of group C members who were members as of the date of establishment and D members all contributions transferred from predecessor systems shall be deemed regular contributions. Those members who, prior to the date of establishment of this system, had been contributing at a rate less than four percent shall have any benefit otherwise payable on their behalf actuarially reduced to reflect such prior contribution rate of less than four percent. Upon a member's retirement or other withdrawal from service on the basis of which a retirement allowance is payable, the member's additional contributions, with interest thereon, shall be paid as an additional allowance equal to an annuity which is the actuarial equivalent of such amount, in the same manner as the benefit otherwise payable under the system.
(2) Contributions shall be made on and after the date of establishment at the rate of 6.3 percent of compensation for each group A, D, and F member and at a rate of 8.18 percent of compensation for each group C member. For the period of July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2016, should the annual value of the total increased contributions of group C, D, and F member contributions exceed $5,300,000.00 on an aggregate basis, any amount in excess of $5,300,000.00 shall remain in the retirement system and the state's contribution shall not be reduced by the amount in excess of $5,300,000.00. Commencing July 1, 2016 or when the State Employees' Retirement System has been determined by the actuary to have assets at least equal to its accrued liability, whichever occurs first, contributions shall be five percent of compensation for group A, D, and F members and 6.88 percent of compensation for group C members. Commencing July 1, 2019, the rate of contribution applicable to all active group F members shall be 4.75 percent of compensation. In determining the amount earnable by a member in a payroll period, the Retirement Board may consider the annual or other periodic rate of earnable compensation payable to such member on the first day of the payroll period as continuing throughout such payroll period, and it may omit deduction from compensation for any period less than a full payroll period if an employee was not a member on the first day of the payroll period, and to facilitate the making of deductions it may modify the deduction required of any member by such an amount as, on an annual basis, shall not exceed one-tenth of one percent of the annual earnable compensation upon the basis of which such deduction is to be made. Each of the amounts shall be deducted until the member retires or otherwise withdraws from service, and when deducted shall be paid into the annuity savings fund, and shall be credited to the individual account of the member from whose compensation the deduction was made.
(6) Contributions required under this subsection shall be limited to contributions from group A, group C, group D and group F members.
(4) Until the unfunded accrued liability is liquidated, the basic accrued liability contribution shall be the annual payment required to liquidate the unfunded accrued liability over a period of 30 years from July 1, 2008, provided that the amount of each annual basic accrued liability contribution after June 30, 2009, shall be five percent greater than the preceding annual basic accrued liability contribution. Any variation in the contribution of normal, basic, unfunded accrued liability or additional unfunded accrued liability contributions from those recommended by the actuary and any actuarial gains and losses shall be added or subtracted to the unfunded accrued liability and amortized over the remainder of the 30-year period.
(6), (7) Repealed.]
(d) Contributions of state. As provided by law, the Retirement Board shall certify to the Governor or Governor-Elect a statement of the percentage of the payroll of all members sufficient to pay for all operating expenses of the Vermont State Retirement System and all contributions of the State which will become due and payable during the next biennium. The contributions of the State shall be charged to the departmental appropriation from which members' salaries are paid and shall be included in each departmental budgetary request.
(f) Contributions paid by State. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (b)(2) of this section to the contrary and pursuant to the provisions of Section 414(h) of the Internal Revenue Code, the State shall pick up and pay the contributions required to be paid by members with respect to service rendered on and after March 1, 1998. Contributions picked up by the State shall be designated for all purposes as member contributions, except that they shall be treated as State contributions in determining tax treatment of a distribution. Each member's compensation shall be reduced by an amount equal to the amount picked up by the State. This reduction, however, shall not be used to determine annual earnable compensation for purposes of determining average final compensation. Contributions picked up under this subsection shall be credited to the Fund. To ensure that the provisions of this subsection are cost neutral to the state, the contributions rates established under subdivision 473(b)(2) of this title shall be increased by one-tenth of one percent of compensation. (Added 1971, No. 231 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; amended 1981, No. 41, §§ 17-19, 39(1); 1989, No. 78, § 7; 1989, No. 277 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 17r, 17w(a), eff. Jan. 1, 1991; 1993, No. 33, § 5; 1997, No. 68 (Adj. Sess.), § 7, eff. March 1, 1998; 1997, No. 89 (Adj. Sess.), § 10; 1997, No. 89 (Adj. Sess.), § 13, eff. April 13, 1998; 1999, No. 158 (Adj. Sess.), § 19; 2003, No. 122 (Adj. Sess.), § 297h; 2005, No. 215 (Adj. Sess.), § 277a; 2007, No. 12, § 1; 2007, No. 13, § 11; 2007, No. 116 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 4, 5, eff. June 7, 2008; 2009, No. 24, § 4a; 2011, No. 63, § H.4.)
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