and we have our -- >> miss zieglar comes to us from calpers, which i thought was an interesting combination. they prioritized the topics for this year's meeting, and we'll focus on one of these topics at each of the meeting, fielding california master plan information, the effects of ageing, and the effects of isolation, and that was the results of studies done in september. we had perspective on the information on studies without walls. the department participates in spanish courses are being started in california. looked at the s.s.i. cashout, where s.s.i. recipients may also receive calfresh benefits on an e.b.t. cart beginning this summer. the benefits will increase $10 per person, per month, to be equitiable with s.s.i. and s.s.p., and most s.s.i. recipients will need to apply for calfresh. excluded members of current calfresh households need not apply, and all households are gearing up for increase -- increased applications. and i will send bridget a flier. -- what they're looking at is side by side data across all states. beginning january 1, counties started collecting data, and thi

on a market value basis, the unfunded liability decreased from about 3.3 billion down to 2.8 billion. >> what is calpers currently at? >> much lower. something like that. >> in terms of our funding status compared to other california pension systems, do you have any sort of sense of where we are? >> i would say you're probably in the top three or four. i would say three or four others -- contra costa are over 97%. >> the fresno systems are over 100, and then, there are a few around 90%. i think contra costa, a couple of l.a. systems are in place, but there are a lot of other systems that are much more poorly funded. >> thank you. >> but this chart identifies the sources of the change in the employer contribution rate from last valuation to this valuation, and i wanted to note that when we were here november and were showing you the projections, and you adopted the 7.4% discount rate, this 24.2% contribution rate is actually 20 basis points lower than the projections we were showing back in november. and the main reason for that slight decrease is really the assets, the preliminary assets that we were us