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Indian River County, Florida Notes To Financial Statements Year Ended September 30, 2016 NOTE 13 - RETIREMENT PLAN - Continued FRS Investment Plan - Continued For all membership classes, employees are immediately vested in their own contributions and are vested after one year of service for employer contributions and investment earnings. Nonvested employer contributions are placed in a suspense account for up to five years. If the employee returns to FRS -covered employment within the five year period, the employee will regain control over his/her account. If the employee does not return within the five-year period, the employee will forfeit the accumulated account balance. For fiscal year ended September 30, 2016, the information for the amount of forfeitures was unavailable from the SBA; however, management believes that these amounts, if any, would be immaterial to the County. If an accumulated benefit obligation for service credit originally earned under the Pension Plan is transferred to the Investment Plan, the member must have the years of service required for Pension Plan vesting (including the service credit represented by the transferred funds) to be vested for these funds and the earnings on the funds. After termination and applying to receive benefits, the member may rollover vested funds to another qualified plan, structure a periodic payment under the Investment Plan, receive a lump -sum distribution, leave the funds invested for future distribution, or any combination of these options. Disability coverage is provided; the member may either transfer the account balance to the FRS Pension Plan when approved for disability retirement to receive guaranteed lifetime monthly benefits under the FRS Pension Plan, or remain in the Investment Plan and rely upon that account balance for retirement income. Contributions: Cost of administering the Investment Plan, including the FRS Financial Guidance Program, are funded through an employer contribution of .04% of payroll and by forfeited benefits of Investment Plan members. The Investment Plan is funded with the same employer and employee contribution rates that are based on salary and membership class as the FRS defined benefit plan. Contributions are directed to individual member accounts, and the individual members allocate contributions and account balances to various approved investment choices. Allocations to the investment member's accounts during the 2015-2016 fiscal year are based on a percentage of gross compensation by class as follows: Regular class 6.30%, Special Risk class 14.00%, Senior Management Service class 7.67%, and County Elected Officers' class 11.34%. The County's Investment Plan contributions and pension expense totaled $1,461,734 for fiscal year ended September 30, 2016. Employee contributions totaled $312,196 for the same period. 94