Recently, we began mailing letters to non-Medicare health care plan enrollees who may be affected by a recent SERS rule change. The letter discusses their eligibility for Medicaid and SERS’ health care coverage. Most non-Medicare enrollees will not be affected by…
Every year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) compiles a list of the most prevalent scams targeting taxpayers. While scams tend to increase during tax season, the coronavirus pandemic has added another element to the more common schemes we have seen in…
The end of FY2019 is quickly approaching, which means many payroll schedules will be meeting their end dates soon. Please be sure to extend any active payroll schedules before their end dates so that you will be able to upload your…
Ohio law requires SERS to impose reporting and payment penalties for lateness. However, due to the launch of the new eSERS system and technical issues, reporting and payment penalties were temporarily suspended. Beginning March 11, 2019, SERS will begin applying penalties…
Payroll deduction plans submitted to SERS before January 1, 2019, are required to be pre-tax plans. This has been the requirement since SERS first began permitting members to purchase service credit by way of payroll deduction plans. To be a pre-tax…
There has been an update to the way Credit Memos are displayed on the eSERS Payment Remittance application. Rather than having a Credit Memo rolled into one amount, a Credit Memo is now broken out by the report that created it….
