Employer Handbook

IPERS produces an Employer Handbook to help you carry out your tasks as an IPERS reporting official.

Employer Handbook: full text (does not include I-Que Help Guide)

Section1: About IPERS
Section 2: IPERS Reporting Officials
Section 3: IPERS Membership
Section 4: IPERS-Covered Wages and Compensation
Section 5: IPERS Plan Contributions
Section 6: IPERS Reporting Requirements
Section 7: Inactivation of an IPERS Reporting Entity
Section 8: IPERS Plan Compliance
Section 9: IPERS Forms
Section 10: Glossary

I-Que Help Guide

About Printed Employer Handbooks

The online PDFs of the Handbook found above are updated more often than printed Handbooks. New printed Handbooks became available in 2011. Since that time, the following updates have been made to the online Handbook:

• In Section 3, employees of the Iowa Economic Development Authority hired on or after July 1, 2011, were added to the list of positions eligible to elect out of IPERS coverage.
• In Section 4, workers' compensation payments were added to the list of exclusions from covered wages.
• In Section 4, the first paragraph under Workers' Compensation and Disability was edited to clarify that workers' compensation payments are not covered.