A new page on the Employer Information website — State Aid Resources — provides more detailed information about the various Michigan Public School Employees’ Retirement System (MPSERS) appropriations in the State Aid Budget and what you can expect from the Michigan Department of Education in your School Aid Fund (SAF) payment.
This resource page offers an infographic that depicts the types of appropriations distributed to K-12 districts, intermediate school districts, libraries, and public school academies, through Section 147 of the current fiscal year’s budget. It also offers brief descriptions of the various types, using the names that appear on the SAF payment (such as MPSERS Cost Offset). Information about appropriations for community colleges (Section 201) and universities (Section 236) is included as well.
The infographic will be updated each year once the upcoming fiscal year budget is finalized. The page can be found on the Administration and Compliance section of the Employer Information site.
Now that the school year has ended, many reporting tasks are shifting toward summer activities, including retirements or preparation for new employees.
An updated End of School Year Checklist (R1018C) is now available on the Employer Information site to use as a reminder of these tasks.
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New employees should be reported with DTL1, DTL2, and DTL4 records on time to allow them to make their New Hire Retirement plan election in miAccount and to minimize issues with their accounts. Failure to include all three types of records on the first report could result in no records posting for the individual.
The DTL1 record reports the member demographic information to ORS and creates their account in the system starting their 75-day election period.
The DTL2 record reports all reportable compensation and the related member and employer contributions due based on reportable compensation.
The DTL4 record reports member and employer gross wages and contributions to the Defined Contribution (DC) Plan for members in Pension Plus, Pension Plus 2, the DC Plan, and anyone with the Personal Healthcare Fund each pay period.
If reports are delayed
A delay in reporting the DTL1 record timely under the first pay period they began receiving wages causes new employees to receive their retirement benefit plan election materials later than when they should have and delays their election. This can also happen if the DTL1 record suspends and is not immediately corrected. Associated DTL2 records reported will suspend pending the employee’s election. Although these records suspend if there are no DTL2 records reported, the employee is considered ineligible to make a retirement plan election.
Delayed reporting of the Detail records may cause a new employee attempting to complete their new hire retirement plan selection to receive an error message to contact their employer as referenced in a November 2023 article.
For more information on reporting new employees, refer to 7.06.02 Reporting employees who are new to MPSERS and 7.06.03: Completing DTL1 records for new employees.
On June 10 we sent invitations 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, thanks for your valuable feedback. If you haven’t yet responded, there’s still time to complete the survey before the deadline at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 25. Completing the survey shouldn’t take more than 10 minutes.
If your email address is in our contacts database as both payroll and administrative positions, you’ll receive 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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As a reminder, employees with tax-deferred payment (TDP) agreements will receive an interest update in July.
TDP agreements that were initiated on or after Jan. 1, 2004, are subject to 8% compound interest applied annually on July 1 to the unpaid balance. This is included in the terms of the completed TDP Agreement Form (R0392C).
As the employer, it's your responsibility to update the employee’s remaining TDP balance with the TDP interest in your payroll records each year after July 1. The amount appears in the Total TDP Interest Amount column of the TDP Agreement Details spreadsheet.
 See 10.06: Updating payments due to TDP annual interest in the Reporting Instruction Manual (RIM) for more information.
The Employer Toolkit is a resource for administrators and HR professionals to better understand the State of Michigan 401(k) and 457 Plans. Take a minute to review and bookmark the site since it provides detailed contact information, FAQs, frequently used materials, and more!
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