US - The $51bn Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) board has requested its members to pay back benefit overpayments worth $800m incurred in 1999.
The news comes after employers sued PERS because its board in 1999 had credited a high amount of earnings to tier one members. A county court agreed that contribution rates were too high and req...
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