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Campus Box 8107
Pocatello, ID 83209-8107
Phone (208) 282-2517
Fax (208) 282-4976
Email: hr@isu.edu

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Benefits: Retirement: Optional Retirement Plan

The State Board of Education has selected AIG-VALIC and TIAA-CREF as the Optional Retirement Plan, (ORP) vendors available to Idaho State University faculty and non-classified staff. This is a mandatory retirement program for benefited faculty and non-classified staff who have not previously vested with PERSI.

The Idaho ORP is a defined contribution plan where both the employer and employee make contributions to the individual employee account.  The employee's contribution is 6.97% of all earnings, withheld pre-tax; the University's contribution to the ORP is 7.718% of employee earnings. Employees are immediately vested when enrolled in the ORP.  The ORP plan document is administered by the Idaho State Board of Education.

Further information regarding ORP vendors can be found from the following sources:

AIG-VALIC
Duane Rawlings, AIG-VALIC Financial Advisor
(208) 233-3396 Local
(208) 221-2223 Mobile

TIAA-CREF
Scott Duerden, TIAA-CREF Individual Consultant
(866) 842-2907