<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#ff00ff">Vickie,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#ff00ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#ff00ff">According to what I see in the STRS handbook Payment for any services actually not rendered are excluded from compensation for retirement purposes. SERS has the same language, but specify that signing bonuses are excluded from compensation consideration.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#ff00ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#ff00ff">So from what I am seeing it does not appear that these are subject to retirement withholding. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#ff00ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#ff00ff">For definitive clarification you may want to contact the retirement entities directly, the statements I listed above are taken out of their handbooks.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#ff00ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#ff00ff">Lori</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#ff00ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#ff00ff"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#3333cc">**************************************************</span></i></b></p><p><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif";color:#3333cc">Lori Miller</span></i></b></p>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Vickie Browning-Prowitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vickie.prowitt@omeresa.net" target="_blank">vickie.prowitt@omeresa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello All!<div><br></div><div>I am in the process of paying all of our staff a signing bonus in place of an incentive payment that was in their contract this year.. We had a MOU signed and board approved.</div><div><br></div><div>My question is do we or do we not withhold STRS and SERS from this payment? I have always been under the understanding that if it is not time worked/earned then we do not withhold the retirement. However, STRS has said that because it has to do with their contract then we can withhold retirement. I do not want a mess down the road that I will need to correct if I process these payments incorrectly.. I have 100 of them to do.</div><div><br></div><div>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Vickie</div><div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_899912963427644434gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><i><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif">Vickie Browning-Prowitt</font></i></font><br><div><div><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Treasurer/CFO</span></div><div><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Lisbon Exempted Village School District</span></div><div>Phone: <a href="tel:330-424-7714" value="+13304247714" target="_blank">330-424-7714</a></div><div>FAX: <a href="tel:330-424-0135" value="+13304240135" target="_blank">330-424-0135</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px">Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this message and any</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px">attachment may be proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px">the work product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px">reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px">agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient,</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px">you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px">this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px">communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this</span><br style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.8000001907349px">message and deleting it and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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