PERS Expo 2025 website still available
If you missed PERS Expo 2025 this year, don’t worry. You can still access the website to learn more about your PERS benefits and how you can create a secure retirement.
The PERS Expo 2025 website will remain open through December 31, 2025.
You can explore information about your PERS benefits, additional retirement savings options, post-retirement health insurance options, the PERS retirement process, and other related topics.
Resources include videos, recorded sessions and workshops, and retirement checklists. Check out the “Ask Experts” area of the website for questions your fellow public employees posed while the PERS Expo event was live on October 1. Note that PERS is no longer accepting live questions via the website.
Return to the PERS Expo website as often as you need to gain a better understanding of your PERS retirement benefits.
Want to change the fund your IAP is invested in?
Your opportunity to change the target-date fund in which your Individual Account Program account is invested is about to open online.
Starting September 1, you can make changes to your IAP fund through
Online Member Services (OMS). The window to make your election online will end September 30. Changes will not take effect until January 1, 2026.
Changing your fund is optional, and once you make a change in OMS, you cannot make another one in OMS until next September.
Read more about:
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Member Choice, the part of Senate Bill 1049 that created the option of changing target-date funds.
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IAP target-date funds, including the details and limitations you need to know about Member Choice before making a change.
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How to use OMS to change your target-date fund.
2025 PERS Economic Impact Study published
Our latest study covering the 2024 calendar year is now available.
Continuing PERS’ commitment to transparency and providing clear and easily understandable information, study discusses the economic impact of pension benefits across the state of Oregon.
Read the new report here.
PERS benefits unchanged by Social Security Fairness Act
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is now processing payments for retirees affected by the
Social Security Fairness Act, which was signed into law on Jan. 5, 2025.
The act repeals the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset, which reduced Social Security payments for about 3.2 million people nationwide. These individuals were receiving pension benefits from jobs where they did not pay Social Security taxes.
Eligible Americans will receive retroactive payments of Social Security benefits dating back to January 2024.
This action by SSA will not change your PERS benefits.
For more information, read SSA’s
Social Security Fairness Act webpage or
contact SSA.
Changes to OPSRP Police and Firefighter retirement age
Are you an Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan member with a Police and Firefighter (P&F) classification? You should be aware of a change to the P&F retirement age that may affect you.
On January 1, 2025, the normal retirement age for OPSRP P&F members decreased from 60 to 55.
This change is the result of legislation passed in 2024 (House Bill 4045).
PERS will add more information about this change throughout the website as it becomes available.
If you have questions about your specific situation,
contact Member Services.