Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 590 - Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System
Chapter 15 - Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges
Subchapter 5 - Excess Benefit Plan and Trust
Section 590:15-5-6 - Contributions and funding

(a) Funding. The Excess Benefit Plan shall be, and remain, unfunded, and the rights, if any, of any person to any benefits hereunder shall be those specified herein. The Excess Benefit Plan constitutes a mere unsecured promise by the Employer, on whose behalf the Retirement Benefit and Excess Benefits are paid to the Participant, to make benefit payments in the future.

(b) Contributions. The Administrator shall determine the amount necessary to pay the Excess Benefit under the Excess Benefit Plan for each Plan Year for the Employer. The required contribution for the Employer shall be the aggregate of the Excess Benefits payable to all Participants of the Employer for such Plan Year plus an amount determined by the Board to be a necessary and reasonable expense of administering the Excess Benefit Plan. The amount determined to be necessary to pay the Excess Benefit of a Participant and administrative expenses of the Excess Benefit Plan shall be withheld from contributions to the URSJJ Plan before being credited to the Retirement Fund and deposited into the Excess Benefit Fund established under Article VI of the Excess Benefit Plan document and 590:15-5-7. Employer contributions shall be made at a time or times determined by the Board, but shall be made no less frequently than annually. Any contributions not used to pay the Excess Benefit for a current Plan Year, together with any income accruing to the Excess Benefit Fund, shall be first used to pay the administrative expenses of the Excess Benefit Plan, then shall be deposited to the Excess Benefit Fund and used to fund Excess Benefits of Participants in future Plan Years.

(c) Contributions not to be credited to OPERS Plan. Under no circumstances will Employer contributions to fund the Excess Benefits under the Plan be credited to the URSJJ Plan. The amounts determined to be necessary to provide the Excess Benefit under the Excess Benefit Plan for each Participant shall be accounted for separately. However, such separate accounting shall not be deemed to set aside such amounts for the benefit of a Participant. Benefits under the Excess Benefit Plan shall be paid from the Excess Benefit Fund.