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Staff present overview of state employee benefits: health appropriation, PERSI rates and budget impact
Summary
Legislative analysts summarized how health insurance, pension contributions (PERSI) and other benefits factor into personnel budgeting. Health insurance is the largest benefit cost; the governor proposed a higher per-position appropriation to limit drawing on reserves.
Frances Lippitt, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, gave JFAC an overview of how employee benefits are budgeted and the items the committee must consider when setting personnel costs.
Lippitt said benefits account for roughly one-quarter of the state's personnel expenditures and that health insurance is the single largest benefits cost. She explained how the appropriation for health insurance is built per full-time position (FTP) and how the appropriation includes premium, a…
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