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State analysts outline benefits costs: health insurance and PERSI drive budgetary pressure
Summary
Legislative budget analysts briefed the committee on state employee benefits, noting benefits account for about a quarter of personnel costs; the governor proposed increasing health appropriation per FTP and PERSI employer contribution rates remain a material share of benefits.
Frances Lippitt, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, gave the committee an overview of the state's benefits budget and how it ties to personnel costs.
"Health insurance accounts for nearly half of all benefits costs and is budgeted based on an appropriation set per FTP," Lippitt said, describing the mechanics analysts use to budget benefits.
Lippitt explained that benefits (health, PERSI, Social Security/Medicare, life insurance, workers' compensation) accounted…
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