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Members who joined the ORP on or after July 27, 1976 have been
required to contribute three percent of their salary to their
ORP contract.
The governor has signed legislation that will eliminate the
three percent employee contribution for employees with ten or
more years of ORP membership. The state, or sponsoring
organization, will now pick up the cost of the three percent
contribution after ten years of ORP membership by increasing the
employer contribution as the employee contribution is
correspondingly reduced.
This legislation will be phased in over a three year period.
Employees who currently have ten or more years of ORP
membership, or those who will achieve ten or more years of
membership over the next three years, will have one percent of
the employee contribution eliminated effective April 1, 2008;
two percent eliminated effective April 1, 2009; and the full
three percent eliminated effective April 1, 2010. Employees
reaching ten years of ORP membership on or after April 1, 2010
will have the full three percent eliminated when they reach ten
years of service. The exact payroll effective date for the first
elimination is April 2, 2008.
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