Due to shredding and removing of documents by former staff, LSHA staff could not readily provide copies of the active pension plans. LSHA has held several meetings with pension providers, Empower and HART to recreate documents and be provided with copies of emails and documents. LSHA's new IT company has also been able to retrieve deleted documents off the server to assist the new Executive Director. The previous Interim Deputy Executive Director initiated the process to switch providers. The legitimacy of the transition is being thoroughly reviewed. It appears that the new Pension providers HART that was originally initiated by the previous Deputy Director, Tammy Dryer, was never followed up on and employee paperwork turned in. The current Pension provider Empower is still currently the agency's (LSHA) pension provider, as Tammy initiated and email to end but never completed the paperwork to end the contract. In addition, pensions for past employees were still being paid into the plan. As of June 6th, 2024, the current Executive Director has completed all necessary paperwork to correct the employee roster. The current Executive Director authorized for the Former Executive Director Erik Berg's pension payment/transfer to be released on May 31, 2024. The current Executive Director, Lisa Dickerson met with HART on June 5, 2024, and the agency will be moving the pension plan from Empower to HART effective July 1, 2024, as per the previous Board Resolution in September 2023. There was and will not be any gap in the pension plan for the agency.