STATE OF CALIFORNIA – STATE CONTROLLER’S OFFICE
EMPLOYEE ACTION REQUEST
STD. 686 (REV 10/2019)
(REVERSE, EMPLOYEE COPY)
INFORMATION FOR EMPLOYEES COVERED BY THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM (CalPERS)
You are entering into membership in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) which provides you and your fellow State employees with retirement and other benefits. Member contributions, those
contributions made by the State of California, and the interest earned on investments provide for service retirement, disability retirement, and death benefits. An information booklet is available from your personnel office. The
booklet describes your particular benefit coverage in detail.
BENEFICIARIES FOR PRE-RETIREMENT SURVIVOR BENEFITS
1. STATUTORY BENEFICIARIES - If you should pass away prior to retirement and you do not name other beneficiaries, surivivor benefits will be paid in the following order:
a. Your spouse or registered domestic partner.
b. If you have no spouse or domestic partner, your biological and adopted children (share and share alike).
c. If you have no spouse, domestic partner, or children, your parents (share and share alike).
d. If you have no spouse, domestic partner, children, or parents, your siblings (share and share alike).
e. If you have none of the above, the benefits will be paid to your probated estate. If your estate will not be probated, payment will be made to your trust. If you have no trust, payment will be made to the next of kin provided
by law (Section 21493).
2. NAMING DIFFERENT BENEFICIARIES – If you wish, you may at any time name different beneficiaries. To do so, you must file with CalPERS, a Pre-Retirement Lump Sum Beneficiary Designation, obtainable from your personnel
office.
Each time you have a change in marital or domestic partnership status, you acquire a child by birth or adoption, or you terminate CalPERS membership by withdrawal of contributions, the California Public Employees’ Retirement
Law will automatically revoke any previously named beneficiaries and establish statutory beneficiaries as listed in Item No. 1. If the statutory beneficiaries are not satisfactory, you must file a new Pre-Retirement Lump Sum
Beneficiary Designation to reflect your desired change.
RESTORATION OR PURCHASE OF RETIREMENT SERVICE CREDIT
If you were a former member of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) and withdrew your contributions, you have the right to redeposit those funds and restore your previous service. You may also
have the right to receive retirement service credit for employment in which you were not a CalPERS member. In most cases, purchasing service credit will increase your potential retirement benefits. Information on the
restoration or purchase of retirement service credit may be obtained by visiting the CalPERS website at www.calpers.ca.gov or by writing to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, Member Account Management
Division – P.O. Box 4000, Sacramento, CA 95812-4000.
TAXES
IF YOU ARE A NONRESIDENT ALIEN PER INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (IRS) NOTICE 2005-76, check the Nonresident Alien box. If you have questions as to whether you should mark this box, you should contact your human
resources office.
IF YOU ARE EXEMPT FROM EITHER FEDERAL OR STATE WITHHOLDING, but not exempt from both, contact your personnel office for special instructions.
IF YOU WILL RECEIVE NONTAXABLE WAGES, please indicate the reason on your withholding claim in the space provided. The reason must be one of the following:
a. “Minister of the church in the exercise of his / her ministry” – employed by the State of California as a Chaplain.
b. “Nonimmigrant Alien per Tax Treaty” (indicate on claim: “Exempt per Article ________ of treaty between United States and (Country).”) Tax Treaty must cite exemption from both Federal and State personal income tax to qualify
for this exemption.
c. “Deceased Employee Wages” – agency administrative action.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING YOUR ELIGIBILITY UNDER ANY OF THE ABOVE REASONS, you should contact your local Internal Revenue Service office or the Employment Tax District Office of the Employment
Development Department.
EMPLOYEES WITH TWO OR MORE CONCURRENT JOBS WITH THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. The allowances you claim on this form will be used for tax withholding purposes for all wages paid under the Uniform State Payroll
System. The Uniform State Payroll System includes all California State Agencies (except as noted below) and the California State Universities. It does not include the California Agricultural Associations, the University of California,
or Legislative employees.
IF YOUR NORMAL LOCATION OF EMPLOYMENT IS NOT IN CALIFORNIA and you are a California State employee, you may be eligible to have income tax for another state withheld from your wages under the reciprocity
provisions required by G.C. 1170.5. Contact your personnel office for additional information.
GENERAL INFORMATION
ADDRESS CHANGE
IF YOU HAVE DEDUCTIONS, you must change your address with the deduction company. This form does not affect an address change with deduction companies.
IF YOUR NAME APPEARS ON ANY DEPARTMENTAL EMPLOYMENT LIST (Open, Promotional, Reemployment, etc.), and your address is changing, check Box 04 and enter your phone number(s) in Section F. Your department
will update the appropriate list(s) with this information.
PRIVACY NOTIFICATION
The Information Practices Act of 1977 (California Civil Code Section 1798.17) and the Federal Privacy Act (5 USC 552a, subd. (e)(3)) require this notice to
be provided when collecting personal information from individuals.
The information you are asked to provide on this form is requested by the Office of the State Controller, Personnel/Payroll Services Division. The
information will be used by the State Controller’s Office for personnel, payroll, retirement, and health benefits processing.
Furnishing the information requested on this form is mandatory except for Prior Public Employment (Section G). Furnishing prior public employment
information is voluntary. Noncompliance in providing your social security number and name will result in refusal of employment. Failure to furnish
other requested information may result in inaccurate determination of credit for State service, payroll calculations, retirement, and/or health benefits.
Legal references authorizing the maintenance of this information by the State Controller’s Office include: Federal Internal Revenue Code (26 USC
Sections 3402(a), 6011, 6051, and 6109) and the regulations thereto; Federal Public Health and Welfare Code (42 USC Section 403); and California
Government Code Sections 12470 through 12479 and 16391 through 16395; California Unemployment Insurance Code Section 13020; delegated
authority from the State Personnel Board; and delegated authority from the Trustees of the California State University.
Certain items of information furnished on this form may be transferred to the following governmental or private agencies where authorized by
law; State Personnel Board, Department of Personnel Administration, Trustees of the California State University, Employment Development
Department, Department of Social Services, Department of Finance, Public Employees’ Retirement System, employing State agencies and
campuses, Social Security Administration, Federal Internal Revenue Service, California State Franchise Tax Board, other State income tax bureaus
and other governmental entities when required by State or Federal law, organizations for which deductions are authorized by law, and collective
bargaining organizations.
Employees have the right to review their own personal information maintained by the State Controller’s Office unless access is exempted by law.
Contact: Personnel/Payroll Services Division, State Controller’s Office, P.O. Box 942850, Sacramento, CA 94250-5878.