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Athens County to pay OPERS penalty and seek employee repayment agreement after payroll error
Summary
Prosecutor Keller Blackburn told commissioners OPERS penalties are unavoidable; the board agreed to pay the late fee to prevent escalating penalties and directed the prosecutor to draft a settlement-style agreement outlining repayment terms for the employee share.
Prosecutor Keller Blackburn told the Athens County Board of Commissioners that state retirement penalties tied to missed employee-withholding remittances are effectively unavoidable and that the county must remit the outstanding contribution and associated penalty to "mitigate damages." Commissioners confirmed they had paid the underlying contribution amount and voted to cover the penalty to avoid further…
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