TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are considering where to place the state’s pension obligations to more than 2,000 state correction employees.

The issue is whether to keep the corrections employees in a distinct group within the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System or to move their pensions to a division of the system serving police officers and firefighters.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the 2013 Legislature studied the issue last year but left the decision to an interim committee that will consider the issue in December.

Members of KPERS’ correctional fund have the same benefit formula as other KPERS members. But corrections employees can retire at a young age than others — 55 or 60 — with 10 years of service.