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Retirement System Operations: |
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NASRA
Survey on interest rates used to calculate service purchase and applied to account balances |
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NASRA
Survey on Annual Required Contribution requirements |
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NASRA
Survey on State Retirement System Budget Authority |
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NASRA
Survey on Member Communications |
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NASRA
Survey on Return-to-Work Policies |
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State policies governing forfeiture of pensions
based on conviction or malfeasance |
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Service Credit for School and School District Employees Who Work Less
Than 12 Months in a Year |
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Mandatory
Direct Deposit |
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Membership
Survey Methods |
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Retirement
Systems' Use of In-house Actuaries |
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Records
Management Functions |
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Succession
and Disaster Planning |
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Internal
Audit Processes |
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Air
Time Purchases |
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Contribution
Shortfalls for Retired Participants |
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Optional
Retirement Plans for Higher Education Faculty |
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Recent
and Anticipated Changes to Inflation and Investment
Return Assumptions |
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Interest
Rates Paid on Participant DB Plan Accounts |
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Public
Retirement Systems' Timing and Process for Setting
Employer Contribution Rates |
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Pension
Plan Retirement Benefits for Probation Officers and
Emergency Dispatch (911) Operators |
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Public Retirement System Gifts Policies |
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Audit
Committee and Board Education Survey |
| |
Board
Travel Policies and Compensation |
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Survey
of Public Plans' Operating Budget Final Approval
Authority |
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Liability
Coverage Held by Public Retirement Systems |
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Board Education and Travel Policies |
| |
Survey
of Public Plans' Operating Budget Final Approval
Authority |
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Death & Disability |
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Survey of NASRA Members' Disability Processes and Benefits, September 2011 |
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Disability
Benchmarking Report, Prepared by the North
Carolina Retirement Systems |
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Death Processes
Benchmarking Report, Prepared by the North
Carolina Retirement Systems |
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Nationwide Disability Survey, Prepared by the North Carolina Retirement Systems |
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Disability
Benefits Governance and Appeals |
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Disability
Benefit Processes |
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Deferred Retirement Option Plans (DROP's) and
Return-to-Work: |
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NASRA
Survey on Return-to-Work Policies |
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NY Report on Deferred Retirement Options and Partial Lump Sum Options, prepared by the New York State Comptroller's Office |
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A
state-by-state analysis of DROP's and other employee
retention programs, prepared by the North Carolina
Retirement Division |
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Summary of
DROP's among statewide retirement systems |
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Society
of Actuaries Design and Actuarial Aspects of Deferred
Retirement Option Programs |
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DROP
Update: The Latest Variations on a Popular Theme,
The Segal Company |
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A Study of a Deferred Retirement Option,
Oklahoma PERS |
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Evaluation of North Carolina’s Policy Governing State Retirees
Returning to Service |
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Plan Design: |
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Reducing Contribution Volatility, Cavanaugh Macdonald Consulting |
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Methods for Stabilizing Public Retirement Plan Contribution Rates, Paul Zorn and Brian Murphy, Gabriel, Roeder, Smith & Co. |
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Trends in Public Sector Retirement Plans, a study by the Nationwide Retirement Education Institute |
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Designing
Pensions, Presented by Norm Jones to the Government
Finance Officers Association |
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State Pension
Plans: Similarities and Differences Between Federal
and State Designs, US General Accounting Office |
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Other Resources: |
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State Personal Income Taxes on Pensions and Retirement Income, Tax Year 2010,
National Conference of State Legislatures |
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Improved U.S. State Pension Funding Levels Could be on the Horizon, by Standard & Poor's |
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2011
federal limits on Social Security, etc., provided by Milliman, Inc. |
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State policies governing termination of public pension benefits, Updated January 2007 |
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State Taxation of Pension Benefits, link to the Retired Public Employees Association website |
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Listing of State Judges' Pension Benefits and Salaries, prepared in January 2005 by the West Virginia Legislative Auditor's Office, Performance Evaluation and Research Division |
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The
Michigan Early Retirement Experience, Prepared
by the Michigan Office of Retirement Services |
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NASRA
Paper on Limitations on Liabilities for Actuarial
Services, Prepared August 2003 |
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Wisconsin
Retirement System Survey on Public Retirement Plans'
Investments-in-Contract Provisions, May 2003 |
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Public
Employee Retirement System Census Data |
