FRESNO METROPOLITAN FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT
QUESTIONS
1. Who is a retiree?
2. Can your employee retire or quit after meeting the age and years of service requirement and then go to work for another public agency or private enterprise and still collect their retiree health benefits from you?
We are not a PERS agency, however, I was unaware that made a difference
FRESNO METROPOLITAN FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT
City of Santa Clarita
Our employees can retire, collect post-retirement benefits, and be employed elsewhere as long as they are not employed by another CalPers agency.
FRESNO METROPOLITAN FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT
Yuima MWD
Once they are vested and met the requirements of the plan and retire they are entitled to the benefit. If they go back to work we would not necessary know that unless they request a temporary stop of benefits then they can request to be put back on later.
Dublin San Ramon Services District
Paul, I’m assuming you’re a PERS agency. We have people who have retired from our District and work elsewhere (non-PERS) who continue to use their retiree medical benefit (that we pay for) through PERS. I’m not sure what the rule is for those who go back to work for a PERS agency, but I believe they then are no longer ‘retired’ from PERS and therefore not entitled to your retiree medical benefit. You’ll want to check with PERS. I look forward to the results of your survey.
Santa Fe Irrigation District
Interesting question. Technically, an employee must retire from our agency and meet the minimum 5 years of service to receive paid retiree health care. What they do after that point does not impact that benefit. I hadn’t thought about it, but now I think I will look into the possibility of making some changes. I’ll be interested to see your summary of responses.
City of Sonora
Yes
Lakeside Fire Protection District
We define a retiree as an employee who retires from the District. An employee that leaves and retires from another agency is not eligible for OPEB.
City of Shasta Lake
Yes, if an agency has implementedCalPERS vesting option GC 22893. Under thisoption, oncethe employee attains 20 years of service exclusively with your agency they may go to work at another agency and then retire on your agency's retiree health plan.
City of Mill Valley
15 years of service (7.5 for a Dept. Head) and must have a PERS retirement from the City. This does not preclude a retiree from being employed by a non-PERS employer, private or public.
Association of Bay Area Governments
We are signed up with CERBT (CalPERS health component) to provide OPEB benefits. From our perspective, we only pay if they retire with CalPERS while with us. I know that in my own situation, I worked for 19 years with the City of Oakland, but I will get no OPEB benefits from them. If they go to work outside of CERBT, e.g. a private company or out-of-state, neither you, your district nor CERBT, would likely know the individual is working for another employer. In fact, they could waive their benefit with a non-PERS employer in lieu of your provided plan.
City of Palmdale
Our plan docs specifically state that the retiree is eligible for retiree health benefits only if they directly retirefrom our City (as verified by PERS retirement documentation) and must enroll in the City's health insurance plan within 120 days from separation of City service. It is possible that they could enroll at a later date, butonly due to aqualified status change.
South Orange County Wastewater Authority
It all depends on your policies and your insurance carrier. Usually your carrier whether it be PERS PEMCHA or something else will not cover an employee unless they retire from your agency. I guess if your policies were loose enough the employee could go to work for another agency and still be covered if you had private insurance that allowed this. It's not very likely. However, if the employee retires from your agency, begins collecting retirement and is covered under your health insurance, by policy, there is nothing preventing them from going to work for a private entity. In fact they could get additional insurance from the private entity or make a deal to get more pay by declining offered health insurance. The only way to limit costs is through your own policies.
City of Campbell
In Campbell, the retiree health benefit is a fixed dollar amount and the employee must retire from the City of Campbell with a minimum 17 years of service.
City of Davis
If the employee retires from the City of Davis, and then works elsewhere as a PERS retiree, then YES they still collect our retiree health benefits.
If the employee quits, works for another public agency and then retires, then NO they will not collect our retiree health benefits.
In order to receive our benefits, they must retire from our agency.
Nevada Irrigation District
PERS’ requirement is that “an annuitant” who retires within 120 days of termination from our Agency gets our Health insurance benefit. If they go and work for another agency and go beyond the 120 days, they do not receive our benefit.
San Clemente
Only if they “retire” from our organization.
City of Beverly Hills
To be eligible for our retiree medical benefit an employee must retire from the City before they are eligible for the benefit AND they cannot work for another Cal-PERS organization after that (but they can work for the private sector or a non-Cal-PERS organization and still receive the benefit).
City of Redwood City
If the employee retires from our city and then “unretires” to go to work for another PERS agency then their retiree medical benefit from Redwood City would stop. This is the only circumstance which would cause a retiree who is receiving this benefit to become ineligible for it.
City of Culver City
I’m pretty sure our definition is someone that is a PERS retiree, meaning they submit retirement paperwork to PERS. This doesn’t prevent them from working in the private sector, or even another public sector agency that is outside of PERS.
Mesa Water
At Mesa a retiree is an employee who retires from the District and meets all of the qualifications to retire and receive and OPEB benefit. Once they leave Mesa as a qualified retiree we have no restrictions for what they do as a retiree.