Maryland does not provide teachers with information on how their benefits accrue for each year of service, the amount contributed each year by teachers and
employers on behalf of teachers, or the projected value of a teacher's contributions based on different assumptions about the rate of return expected (e.g. 4 %, 6 %, and 8 %).
Not exact matches
Teachers leaving before then will forfeit the entirety
of 16.8 percent
of salary that
employers contributed
on their
behalf.
But only 2 states provide the
teacher their own contributions, some interest, and a share
of the contribution
employers made
on their
behalf.
At a minimum, states should ensure that
teachers leaving the pension plan can take with them their own contributions, the interest those contributions accrued, and a share
of the
employer contributions that were made
on their
behalf.
Teacher pension costs are included
on the
Teachers Pension line item (this includes both the CPS»
employer share
of the pension costs as well as the cost
of the additional pension benefit that CPS pays
on behalf of employees).