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Staff reviews state employee benefits: health insurance appropriation, PERSI employer rates and budget impact
Summary
An LSO analyst summarized how benefits are budgeted — health insurance appropriations per full‑time position, the PERSI employer contribution rates, and how benefits compose roughly a quarter of personnel costs — noting the governor’s recommended health‑insurance appropriation per FTP and the fiscal effect.
Frances Lippitt, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, briefed the committee on how employee benefits are budgeted and how they affect agency personnel costs.
Lippitt said benefits — which include health and dental insurance, PERSI retirement contributions, Social Security and Medicare, life insurance, and workers’ compensation — account for roughly one quarter of state personnel expenditures. Health insurance is budgeted per…
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