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Benefits For Current Employees

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Benefits for Current Employees

Whether you're nearing retirement or years away, you'll find all the retirement benefit information you need on this site!

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ORBIT Member Portal

Who wants to fill out forms or call customer service when you've got much better things to do with your time? To view your creditable service or add or change your beneficiary designations, you have access to ORBIT.

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Retirement Systems Funding

Many public employees believe that the retirement system you participate in is only funded by the six percent contributions you made each month while working. In reality, there's so much more that's needed.

As you can see from the 2018 Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System example to the right, in a year where we earned 7.3 percent, the investment returns provided 66 percent of the overall funding, employer contributions equaled 22 percent and employee contributions equaled 12 percent. By assuming a seven percent annual return on investments, the state takes on enormous risk because in years where we don’t hit that return mark they have to kick in more money. They have consistently done so since 1941, which is why the N.C. Retirement Systems continue to be one of the best funded pension plans in the country.

 

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