Merry Christmas to me!
Dec. 24th, 2009 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaMany years ago, when I first graduated from college, I worked as a research assistant at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center. I was paid the princely sum of $15,000 a year, which I'll admit seemed like a huge amount of money at the time. For the year that I held that job prior to going away to grad school, I was officially an Oregon state employee. Then I moved away.
Today I received in the mail a packet from the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System. They were writing to let me know that my membership in PERS is being terminated because it's been ten years since five years after I stopped being an employee of the state of Oregon. If I send in a form, they'll send me my accumulated PERS retirement benefits: $1511.61.
They have to take out 20% in federal taxes, so the actual check I get will be more like $1200. But that's $1200 of money I had absolutely no idea was coming to me. Merry Christmas a day early!
Today I received in the mail a packet from the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System. They were writing to let me know that my membership in PERS is being terminated because it's been ten years since five years after I stopped being an employee of the state of Oregon. If I send in a form, they'll send me my accumulated PERS retirement benefits: $1511.61.
They have to take out 20% in federal taxes, so the actual check I get will be more like $1200. But that's $1200 of money I had absolutely no idea was coming to me. Merry Christmas a day early!
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Date: 2009-12-24 10:34 pm (UTC)Also, congratulations are probably in order to OPERS for finding you after all this time...