News

  • Public Service Recognition Week

    It is Public Service Week across the country. Each year, the President and Congress designate the first full week of May as…

  • Attention Current Duty Disability Recipients

    Proposed HF1234 – Impact on Current Duty Disability Recipients
    Updated March 20, 2023

    HF1234, a proposed bill providing early mental health treatment for public…

  • Board Election Results

    PERA Board welcomes new board trustees

    The PERA Board welcomed one new trustee, Dennis Flaherty, along with four returning trustees, Paul Bourgeois, Thomas…

  • PERA Hits the Road this Spring and Summer

    Registration for in-person programs and counseling sessions opens today! From May to September, we will be hosting member education programs in various…

  • 2022 1099-R Tax Form

    If you receive monthly benefits,  your Form 1099-R, Distributions From Pensions, Annuities, Retirement or Profit-Sharing Plans, IRAs, Insurance Contracts, etc. (1099-R) is available…

  • 2022 Financial Reports Now Available

    PERA is pleased to announce that the 2022 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) and Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR), which is a…

  • Changes to Tax Withholding

    ATTENTION CURRENT BENEFIT RECIPIENTS: There is no action needed by you – your current tax withholding selections were converted to the new…

  • 2023 Annual Benefit Increases

    PERA benefit recipients will receive the maximum annual benefit increase in January 2023:

    Coordinated: 1.5% 

    Police & Fire: 1.0% 

    Correctional: 2.5% 

    MERF and Basic annual benefit increases are the same…

  • GFOA Award for 29th Consecutive Year

    PERA’s Annual Financial Report receives award for excellence in financial reporting

    PERA is pleased to announce that it received the Government Finance Officers…

  • Announcement of New SBI Executive Director

    The Minnesota State Board of Investment (SBI) has announced Jill Schurtz as the board’s next Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer. She…