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Staff outlines health insurance, PERSI and benefits cost drivers for state payroll
Summary
Legislative analysts explained how benefits compose roughly one-quarter of personnel costs, described the governor's proposed health-insurance appropriation, and reviewed employer contribution rates to the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI).
Frances Lippitt, a budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, briefed the committee on state employee benefits and how benefits are incorporated into agency budgets.
Lippitt said benefits represent about 25% of overall personnel costs and that health insurance accounts for nearly half of benefits spending. The state budgets health insurance as an appropriation per full-time position (FTP); variable benefits such as…
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