Riemer v. Oregon Public Employees Retirement Board

Petitioner seeks judicial review of an order of the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Board that recalculated petitioner’s retirement benefit to correct prior errors and ordered petitioner to reimburse the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) for overpaid benefits. Petitioner, who retired from the Oregon State Bar in 2006, contends that the board erred in determining when his PERS membership began and in concluding that he was ineligible to purchase “waiting time” retirement credit for time that he worked for the Bar but was not yet a PERS member. We affirm.

The facts material to our…