For each school year, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school entity shall be paid by the Commonwealth for contributions based upon school service of active members of the system and active participants of the plan after June 30, 2018, as follows:
(1) The Commonwealth shall pay each school entity for contributions made to the fund or the trust based upon school service of all active members or active participants, including members or participants on activated or USERRA military service leave, whose effective dates of employment with their school entities are after June 30, 1994, and who also had not previously been employed by any school entity within this Commonwealth, an amount equal to the amount certified by the board as necessary to provide, together with the members' and participants' contributions, reserves on account of prospective annuities, supplemental annuities and the premium assistance program as provided in this part in accordance with section 8328 (relating to actuarial cost method), multiplied by the market value/income aid ratio of the school entity. For no school year shall any school entity receive less than the amount that would result if the market value/income aid ratio as defined in section 2501(14.1) of the Public School Code was 0.50.
(2) The Commonwealth shall pay each school entity for contributions made to the fund or the trust based upon school service of all active members or active participants, including members or participants on activated military service leave, and active participants of the plan who are not described in paragraph (1) one-half of the amount certified by the board as necessary to provide, together with the members' and participants' contributions, reserves on account of prospective annuities, supplemental annuities and the premium assistance program as provided in this part in accordance with section 8328.
(3) School entities shall have up to five days after receipt of the Commonwealth's portion of the employer's liability to forward the payment to the fund or the trust. School entities are expected to make the full payment to the fund or the trust in accordance with section 8327 (relating to payments by employers) in the event the receipt of the Commonwealth's portion of the employer's liability is delayed because of delinquent salary reporting or other conduct by the school entities.
(4) Employers whose payments to the Public School Employees' Retirement Fund are delinquent shall be charged interest by the Public School Employees' Retirement Fund at the annual interest rate adopted by the board under section 8328 in effect in the fiscal year in which the payments are required to be paid.
(June 12, 2017, P.L.11, No.5, eff. imd.)
2017 Amendment. Act 5 added section 8535.1.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 85 - Administration and Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 8501 - Public School Employees' Retirement Board
Section 8502 - Administrative duties of board
Section 8502.1 - Health insurance (Deleted by amendment)
Section 8502.2 - Health insurance
Section 8503 - Duties of board to advise and report to employers, members and participants
Section 8504 - Duties of board to report to State Employees' Retirement Board
Section 8505 - Duties of board regarding applications and elections of members and participants
Section 8505.1 - Installment payments of accumulated deductions
Section 8506 - Duties of employers
Section 8507 - Rights and duties of school employees, members and participants
Section 8508 - Rights and duties of annuitants
Section 8509 - Health insurance premium assistance program
Section 8510 - Stress test of system
Section 8521 - Management of fund and accounts
Section 8522 - Public School Employees' Retirement Fund
Section 8523 - Members' savings account
Section 8524 - State accumulation account
Section 8525 - Annuity reserve account
Section 8526 - Health insurance account
Section 8527 - Northern Ireland-related investments
Section 8531 - State guarantee regarding the system
Section 8532 - State supervision
Section 8533 - Taxation, attachment and assignment of funds
Section 8533.1 - Approval of domestic relations orders
Section 8533.2 - Irrevocable beneficiary
Section 8533.3 - Irrevocable survivor annuitant
Section 8533.4 - Amendment of approved domestic relations orders
Section 8533.5 - Irrevocable successor payee
Section 8534 - Fraud and adjustment of errors
Section 8535 - Payments to school entities by Commonwealth
Section 8536 - Independent Fiscal Office study
Section 8537 - Internal Revenue Code limitations
Section 8538 - Public Pension Management and Asset Investment Review Commission
Section 8544 - Participation criteria