To comply with the mandatory enrollment provisions of R.S. 11:157(A), an employer must enroll each full-time employee (employed on a permanent, regularly scheduled basis for at least an average of thirty hours per week) in MPERS on the first day the employee qualifies for membership.

The employer shall remit to MPERS the required employee and employer contributions no later than the fifteenth day of the month following the first day the employee qualifies for membership.

If the employee subsequently submits an affidavit under R.S. 11:157(C) before the end of the first calendar month during which the employee qualified for MPERS membership, a prorated amount of employer contributions shall be refunded to the employer.

See the regulation linked below for further details.

Mandatory enrollment, service and compensation reporting, and payment of contributions is all done electronically through MPERS’ PATROLEsystem. If your municipality does not have an MPERS employer number and/or a PATROLE user name and password, please contact Sarah Daniel.

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