Act 100 of 2016 transferred the responsibility for providing actuarial notes on legislation proposing changes to public employee pension or retirement plans to the Independent Fiscal Office (IFO). The actuarial notes provide information to the members of the General Assembly and the public regarding the financial and actuarial effects of legislation under consideration.
All actuarial notes issued by the IFO will be posted on this page. The actuarial notes issued by the former Public Employee Retirement Commission (PERC) also will be listed.
IFO Releases
Summary and Analysis of Annual SERS Stress Test Report
December 01, 2022 | Pension Analysis
Pursuant to Act 128 of 2020, the IFO issued a report that summarizes results from the State Employee Retirement System’s (SERS) recent stress test report. Based on SERS baseline projections, the IFO projects that over the next 20 years, Commonwealth agencies will use $17.8 billion in General Fund revenues (1.5%) for employer pension contributions. Relative to baseline projections, the report also summarizes the impact from scenarios that allow investment performance and member salary growth to exceed and fall short of baseline assumptions.