Hello.
In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Public Employees’ Retirement System of Mississippi (PERS) is temporarily suspending visitors to the PERS building and conducting retirement counseling via telephone.
We are keenly aware of the more than 335,000 individuals relying on the work that we do and are working to ensure that our critical tasks of paying benefits and processing retirement applications continues. We are conducting that work and handling operations while remembering that the health and well-being of our employees and members is of the utmost importance.
PERS Closed to Visitors Immediately
As of Monday, March 16, 2020, PERS is temporarily suspending all walk-in appointments and guest visits, Focus Sessions, group seminars, and activities where large groups are scheduled to meet with PERS representatives either at the office or off-site. All individual retirement counseling sessions are being conducted via telephone.
Anyone with a previously scheduled retirement counseling session should not come to PERS.
A representative will contact you about your session.
PERS employees are working to process existing retirement applications as expected, but we ask that any member who is not waiting on paperwork from PERS or who is not retiring before July 1, 2020, to please refrain from calling the office so that staff can focus on meeting critical deadlines of those who are.
PERS is monitoring this very fluid situation closely and will make adjustments accordingly. The PERS website will be updated as new information is available; however, we encourage all constituents to
sign up for PERS eUpdates
so that we can e-mail directly to them any updates we have.
Thank you for your patience and understanding. Stay well and know we are working with you in mind.
Ray Higgins
PERS Executive Director
