PERA Adopts New Rules Effective in 2025

Colorado PERA adopted new administrative rules effective March 17, 2025, that may impact you, now or in the future. The updates involve the following changes for members and retirees:

Members

• Leave payouts made at termination are PERA-includable salary only if made within 60 days after the member’s termination.
• Changes to the working after retirement rules: updating the deadline for employers to designate retirees working over the 110-day limit to September 1; employers can designate more than 10 retirees; and a six-year limit to certain designations.
• Surviving cobeneficiaries can now enroll in PERACare within 30 days of receiving their first benefit, and surviving and divorced spouses can enroll within 30 days after loss of coverage.
• Designations of benefit options, beneficiaries, cobeneficiaries, and coannuitants can now be made electronically through PERA’s secure website.
• PERA can send documents related to an administrative appeal electronically through PERA’s secure website.
• Clarification of PERA’s use of a non-voting hearing officer and their role in the administrative review process.  
• Updated the name of PERA’s annual financial report and removed the list of participating employers from the Rules, in favor of using the more up-to-date website version for informational purposes. 

Retirees

• Changes to the working after retirement rules: updating the deadline for employers to designate retirees working over the 110-day limit to September 1; employers can designate more than 10 retirees; a retiree is limited to one designation per position, per employer, per year, and a six-year limit to certain designations.
• Surviving cobeneficiaries can now enroll in PERACare within 30 days of receiving their first benefit, and surviving and divorced spouses can enroll within 30 days after loss of coverage.
• PERA can send documents related to an administrative appeal electronically through PERA’s secure website.
• Clarification of PERA’s use of a non-voting hearing officer and their role in the administrative review process. 
• Designations of benefit options, beneficiaries, cobeneficiaries, and coannuitants can now be made electronically through PERA’s secure website.
• Leave payouts made at termination are PERA-includable salary only if made within 60 days after the member’s termination.
• Updated the name of PERA’s annual financial report and removed the list of participating employers from the Rules, in favor of using the more up-to-date website version for informational purposes. 

View a summary of the changes and the amendments to Colorado PERA Rules.