This year’s Small Steps campaign will take effect on the first available pay period in March 2025. A March date avoids the holiday processing and makes for a smoother process for your reporting unit. The campaign includes employees in the Pension Plus, Pension Plus 2, and Defined Contribution plans, as well as those with the Personal Healthcare Fund (PHF).
A mailing will go out to applicable employees in mid-December 2024 regarding the campaign, which will include their opt-out code. No additional notices will be sent to employees after this, so please advise your employees to keep the mailer. View the Small Steps Campaign Mailer.
Reporting units may hire employees under age 19 for seasonal employment positions, but that employment will not be reportable for MPSERS membership.
As a reminder, please do not report or submit any records for employees who are under the age of 19 while in a temporary, intermittent, irregular seasonal, or athletic position.
Please see Student employees in section 3.02 Special membership circumstances of the Reporting Instruction Manual (RIM).
As the winter holidays approach, please bear in mind that ORS does not change payroll calendar dates when a pay period falls on a holiday or weekend.
Employees may be paid ahead of the holiday or weekend date, but for your report header, you must use the date reflected on your payroll calendar.
If you pay employees on a day other than your pay period end date, adjust your record end date accordingly, while keeping the same report end date. Be advised that records will flag because they do not match your payroll calendar.
For example: If your pay period end date falls on January 1, 20xx, but you pay your employees on December 30, 20xx, your report header will have a pay period end date of January 1, 20xx, while records within the report will have an end date of December 30, 20xx.
This is especially important for IRS limits associated with DC/PHF contributions on a DTL4 record, and if the record posts incorrectly the employee may receive inaccurate service credit.
Please refer to the RIM section 7.00.01 Payroll calendars and due dates and our list of non-business days.
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On Wednesday, Nov. 13, we sent this email invitation to complete our survey. Your responses help ORS better understand how we can improve our processes and build a stronger relationship with you.
For those who have completed the survey, we thank you for your valuable feedback. If you haven’t responded yet, there’s still time to complete the survey before the deadline at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 26. Completing the survey shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes.
Regardless of your role as payroll staff or administrative staff, you received only one email invitation to this survey. The survey will ask which type of position describes your primary role. You may take the survey only once.
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A resource for you, the MPSERS Employer Toolkit is a one-stop shop for tools and education on the State of Michigan 401(k) and 457 Plans. This is meant to aid you in your work administering and discussing the State of Michigan 401(k) and 457 Plans with your employees, not for sharing with them.
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