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AL Code § 36-27-140 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 7 - Cost of Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 1998|Section 36-27-140 - Amount of Increase - Persons Other Than Persons Whose Employer Participated in Employees' Retirement System.

Section 36-27-140Amount of increase - Persons other than persons whose employer participated in Employees' Retirement System. (a) Commencing October 1, 1998, each person, except those whose employer participated in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7, and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees' Retirement System is prior to October 1, 1998, and who is receiving or is entitled to receive a monthly allowance from the Employees' Retirement System, shall receive a cost-of-living increase of not less than thirty dollars ($30) per month and the increase shall be more if determined by computing the sum of the following two factors: (1) Four percent of the individual's current gross monthly benefit, including all previous increases. (2) Two dollars ($2) for each year of creditable service in covered employment prior to retirement.  Retirees who chose Option 2, 3, or 4 shall receive the cost-of-living increase reduced by the same percentage as the reduction which occurred because of the option selected unless the designated beneficiary under the option is deceased on July 1, 1998, in which case the increase shall not be reduced. (b) Beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees, except where the deceased member or deceased retiree retired from an employer participating in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7, and 36-27-7.1, if the date of death for the deceased member, or the effective date of retirement for the deceased retiree for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees' Retirement System was prior to October 1, 1998, shall receive the cost-of-living increase in the amount attained by the retiree reduced by the retiree's option election factor but the reduction shall not make the increase less than thirty dollars ($30) per month. (Act 98-272, p. 446, §1.)
AL Code § 36-27-141 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 7 - Cost of Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 1998|Section 36-27-141 - Amount of Increase - Persons Whose Employer Elects to Come Under Provisions.

Section 36-27-141Amount of increase - Persons whose employer elects to come under provisions. (a) Commencing October 1, 1998, each person whose employer participated in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees' Retirement System is prior to July 1, 1998, and who is receiving or is entitled to receive a monthly allowance from the Employees' Retirement System, may receive a cost-of-living increase determined by the formula used in Section 36-27-140, if the employer elects to come under this article. Retirees who chose Option 2, 3, or 4 shall receive the cost-of-living increase reduced by the same percentage as the reduction which occurred because of the option selected unless the beneficiary under the option selected is deceased on July 1, 1998, in which case the increase shall not be reduced. Any employer making the election to come under this article shall bear the cost of the cost-of-living increases paid to its employees pursuant to this section. Any employer participating under Section 36-27-6, may elect to come under this article at anytime and have the article become effective on October 1, 1998, or on October 1 of any subsequent fiscal year and the employer shall not be required to pay this cost-of-living increase retroactively unless the employer elects to fund the increase. (b) If the employer elects to come under this article, beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees retired from an employer participating in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, shall receive the same cost-of-living increase provided in Section 36-27-140, reduced by the retiree's option factor but the reduction shall not make the increase less than thirty dollars ($30) per month. (Act 98-272, p. 446, §2.)
AL Code § 36-27-142 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 7 - Cost of Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 1998|Section 36-27-142 - Amount of Increase - Persons Whose Employer Participated in the Employees' Retirement System.

Section 36-27-142Amount of increase - Persons whose employer participated in the Employees' Retirement System. Commencing October 1, 1998, each person whose employer participated in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees' Retirement System is prior to July 1, 1998, and who is receiving a monthly allowance or is eligible to receive a monthly allowance from the Employees' Retirement System, shall receive a cost-of-living increase in the amount of one half the amount of the years of service factor and the full amount (four percent) of the current gross benefit factor of the formula in Section 36-27-140. Retirees who chose Option 2, 3, or 4 shall receive the cost-of-living increase reduced by the same percentage as the reduction which occurred because of the option selected unless the designated beneficiary under the option is deceased on July 1, 1998, in which case the increase shall not be reduced. Beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees of employers participating in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-7.1, shall be entitled to the increase the retiree has attained using the formula provided in Section 36-27-140 as modified by this section, reduced by the retiree's option election factor. No retiree or beneficiary of this class shall receive a benefit increase of less than twenty dollars ($20) per month. (Act 98-272, p. 446, §3.)
AL Code § 36-27-143 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 7 - Cost of Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 1998|Section 36-27-143 - Duties and Responsibilities of Board and Employer.

Section 36-27-143Duties and responsibilities of board and employer. The Board of Control of the Employees' Retirement System shall determine annually the amount required to pay the cost of the increased allowance provided under Sections 36-27-140 and 36-27-142, and shall notify the chief fiscal officer of each employer of the percentum rates of earnable compensation of the members required to be paid to the retirement systems. Each employer of members of the Employees' Retirement System shall pay on account of the increases provided in Sections 36-27-140 and 36-27-142 in the same manner and from the same source of funds as provided in Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-24, it being the intent of the Legislature that the cost of providing the increases in Sections 36-27-140 and 36-27-142 shall be distributed from all funds in proportion to the salaries paid therefrom for active members. (Act 98-272, p. 446, §4.)
AL Code § 36-27-144 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 7 - Cost of Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 1998|Section 36-27-144 - Notification of Employers Who Have Withdrawn From Participation.

Section 36-27-144Notification of employers who have withdrawn from participation. The Board of Control of the Employees' Retirement System may notify any employer who participated in the Employees' Retirement System and has withdrawn from participation on April 10, 1998, that the cost-of-living increases provided by this article and Acts 96-572, 1996 Regular Session, 94-232, 1994 Regular Session, as amended by 94-768 of the 1994 First Special Session, and 93-604, 1993 Regular Session, are available to their retirees and beneficiaries provided the employer elects to fund the increase. (Act 98-272, p. 446, §5.)
AL Code § 36-27-145 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 7 - Cost of Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 1998|Section 36-27-145 - Pensioners Who Retired Prior to Membership of Employer in System.

Section 36-27-145Pensioners who retired prior to membership of employer in system. (a) Commencing October 1, 1998, any retired employee who retired from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Employees' Retirement System, and who is receiving a monthly benefit prior to October 1, 1998, administered by the Employees' Retirement System, and whose years of creditable service has not been made known to the Employees' Retirement System, may receive an increase in benefits in the amount of sixty dollars ($60) per month if the monthly benefit is five hundred dollars ($500) or less; ninety dollars ($90) per month if the monthly benefit is more than five hundred dollars ($500) but less than one thousand dollars ($1,000); one hundred twenty dollars ($120) per month if the monthly benefit is more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) but less than fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500); one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per month if the monthly benefit is more than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) but less than two thousand dollars ($2,000); one hundred eighty dollars ($180) per month if the monthly benefit is two thousand dollars ($2,000) but less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500); and two hundred ten dollars ($210) per month if the monthly benefit is more than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500), provided the retired employee retired prior to October 1, 1998, and the employer decides to come under the provisions of this article. (b) Retired local public agency employees who retired prior to membership of the employer in the Employees' Retirement System and whose creditable service records have been received by the Employees' Retirement System shall receive an increase based on the formula in Section 36-27-140 provided the employer elects to fund the increase. (Act 98-272, p. 446, §6.)
AL Code § 36-27-146 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 7 - Cost of Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 1998|Section 36-27-146 - Beneficiaries of Pensioners Formerly Participating in Retirement Program of Class 1 Municipalities.

Section 36-27-146Beneficiaries of pensioners formerly participating in retirement program of Class 1 municipalities. Commencing October 1, 1998, beneficiaries of pensioners formerly participating in a retirement program of a Class 1 municipality but whose benefits are currently administered by the Employees' Retirement System shall receive a monthly increase of sixty-five dollars ($65) provided the local public board elects to fund the increase. All other beneficiaries of Employees' Retirement System pensioners shall receive an increase of thirty dollars ($30) per month provided the local units elect to fund the increase. (Act 98-272, p. 446, §7.)
AL Code § 36-27-147 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 7 - Cost of Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 1998|Section 36-27-147 - Pensioners Who Retired Prior to Membership of Employer and Receiving Benefits Not Administered by System.

Section 36-27-147Pensioners who retired prior to membership of employer and receiving benefits not administered by system. Commencing October 1, 1998, any pensioner or annuitant who retired prior to October 1, 1998, from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Employees' Retirement System and is receiving a monthly benefit not administered by the Employees' Retirement System shall receive a fifty dollar ($50) per month increase provided the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state elects to fund the increase provided the pensioner retired prior to October 1, 1998. (Act 98-272, p. 446, §8.)
AL Code § 36-27-148 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 7 - Cost of Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 1998|Section 36-27-148 - Election by Local Administrative Unit.

Section 36-27-148Election by local administrative unit. Any county board, department, or agency responsible for the local administration of a program for a state board, department, or agency affiliated with the Employees' Retirement System on October 1, 1998, may provide the cost-of-living increase pursuant to this article to any retiree or beneficiary who retired prior to July 1, 1998, if the local administrative unit elects to fund the increase. (Act 98-272, p. 446, §9.)
AL Code § 36-27-149 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 7 - Cost of Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 1998|Section 36-27-149 - Persons Receiving Medicaid Benefits.

Section 36-27-149Persons receiving Medicaid benefits. Any person who received benefits under the Medicaid program and whose eligibility for Medicaid benefits would be impaired by the cost-of-living increase provided by this article shall not be entitled to receive the increase. Any person who subsequently applies for benefits under the Medicaid program and that person's eligibility to receive benefits is impaired by the cost-of-living increase provided by this article, shall not be entitled to receive the increase subsequent to the date that the member files application for benefits under the Medicaid program. (Act 98-272, p. 446, §10.)
AL Code § 36-27-150 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 8 - Cost-of-Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 2000.|Section 36-27-150 - Amount of Increase - Persons Other Than Those Whose Employers Participated in Employees' Retirement System.

Section 36-27-150Amount of increase - Persons other than those whose employers participated in Employees' Retirement System. (a) Commencing October 1, 2000, each person, except those whose employer participated in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7, and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees' Retirement System is prior to October 1, 2000, and who is receiving or is entitled to receive a monthly allowance from the Employees' Retirement System, shall receive a cost-of-living increase of four percent in their gross monthly benefit, but not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) per month. (b) Beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees, except where the deceased member or deceased retiree retired from an employer participating in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-6, 36-27-7, and 36-27-7.1, if the date of death for the deceased member, or the effective date of retirement for the deceased retiree for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees' Retirement System was prior to October 1, 2000, shall receive the cost-of-living increase in the amount attained by the retiree. The increase shall not be less than twenty-five dollars ($25) per month. (Act 2000-809, p. 1921, §1.)
AL Code § 36-27-151 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 8 - Cost-of-Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 2000.|Section 36-27-151 - Amount of Increase - Persons Whose Employer Elects to Come Under Provisions.

Section 36-27-151Amount of increase - Persons whose employer elects to come under provisions.  (a) Commencing October 1, 2000, each person whose employer participated in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees' Retirement System is prior to July 1, 2000, and who is receiving or is entitled to receive a monthly allowance from the Employees' Retirement System, may receive a cost-of-living increase determined by the provisions used in Section 36-27-150, if the employer elects to come under this article. Any employer making the election to come under this article shall bear the cost of the cost-of-living increases paid to its employees pursuant to this section. Any employer participating under Section 36-27-6, may elect to come under the article at anytime and have this article become effective on October 1, 2000, or on October 1 of any subsequent fiscal year and the employer shall not be required to pay this cost-of-living increase retroactively unless the employer elects to fund the increase. (b) If the employer elects to come under this article, beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees retired from an employer participating in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Section 36-27-6, shall receive the same cost-of-living increase provided in Section 36-27-150, but the increase shall not be less than twenty-five dollars ($25) per month. (Act 2000-809, p. 1921, §2.)
AL Code § 36-27-152 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 8 - Cost-of-Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 2000.|Section 36-27-152 - Amount of Increase - Persons Whose Employer Participated in Employees' Retirement System.

Section 36-27-152Amount of increase - Persons whose employer participated in Employees' Retirement System. Commencing October 1, 2000, each person whose employer participated in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-7.1, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees' Retirement System is prior to July 1, 2000, and who is receiving a monthly allowance or is eligible to receive a monthly allowance from the Employees' Retirement System, shall receive a cost-of-living increase as described in Section 36-27-150. Beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees of employers participating in the Employees' Retirement System pursuant to Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-7.1, shall be entitled to the increase the retiree has attained under the provisions in Section 36-27-150. No retiree or beneficiary of this class shall receive a benefit increase of less than twenty-five dollars ($25) per month. (Act 2000-809, p. 1921, §3.)
AL Code § 36-27-153 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 8 - Cost-of-Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 2000.|Section 36-27-153 - Duties of Board and Employer.

Section 36-27-153Duties of board and employer. The Board of Control of the Employees' Retirement System shall determine annually the amount required to pay the cost of the increased allowance provided under Sections 36-27-150 and 36-27-152, and shall notify the chief fiscal officer of each employer of the per centum rates of earnable compensation of the members required to be paid to the retirement systems. Each employer of members of the Employees' Retirement System shall pay on account of the increases provided in Sections 36-27-150 and 36-27-152 in the same manner and from the same source of funds as provided in Sections 36-27-7 and 36-27-24, it being the intent of the Legislature that the cost of providing the increases in Sections 36-27-150 and 36-27-152 shall be distributed from all funds in proportion to the salaries paid therefrom for active members. (Act 2000-809, p. 1921, § 4.)
AL Code § 36-27-154 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 8 - Cost-of-Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 2000.|Section 36-27-154 - Notification of Employers Who Have Withdrawn From Participation.

Section 36-27-154Notification of employers who have withdrawn from participation. The Board of Control of the Employees' Retirement System may notify any employer who participated in the Employees' Retirement System and has withdrawn from participation before May 25, 2000 that the cost-of-living increases provided by this article and Acts 98-272, 1998 Regular Session, 96-572, 1996 Regular Session, 94-232, 1994 Regular Session, as amended by 94-768 of the 1994 First Special Session, and 93-604, 1993 Regular Session, are available to their retirees and beneficiaries provided the employer elects to fund the increase. (Act 2000-809, p. 1921, § 5.)
AL Code § 36-27-155 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 8 - Cost-of-Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 2000.|Section 36-27-155 - Pensioners Who Retired Prior to Membership of Employer in System.

Section 36-27-155Pensioners who retired prior to membership of employer in system. (a) Commencing October 1, 2000, any retired employee who retired from a city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state before the city, town, county, or public or quasi-public organization of the state became a member of the Employees' Retirement System, and who is receiving a monthly benefit prior to October 1, 2000, administered by the Employees' Retirement System, and whose years of creditable service has not been made known to the Employees' Retirement System, may receive an increase in benefits of four percent, except that no pensioner shall receive an increase of less than twenty-five dollars ($25) per month, provided the retired employee retired prior to October 1, 2000, and the employer decides to come under the provisions of this article. (b) Retired local public agency employees who retired prior to membership of the employer in the Employees' Retirement System and whose creditable service records have been received by the Employees' Retirement System shall receive an increase as provided for in Section 36-27-150 if the employer elects to fund the increase. (Act 2000-809, p. 1921, § 6.)
AL Code § 36-27-156 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 27 - State Employees' Retirement System.|Article 8 - Cost-of-Living Increase for Retirement Date Prior to October 1, 2000.|Section 36-27-156 - Beneficiaries of Pensioners Formerly Participating in Retirement Program of Class 1 Municipalities.

Section 36-27-156Beneficiaries of pensioners formerly participating in retirement program of Class 1 municipalities. Commencing October 1, 2000, beneficiaries of pensioners formerly participating in a retirement program of a Class 1 municipality but whose benefits are currently administered by the Employees' Retirement System shall receive a monthly increase of thirty-five dollars ($35) provided the local public board elects to fund the increase. All other beneficiaries of Employees' Retirement System pensioners shall receive an increase of twenty-five dollars ($25) per month provided the local units elect to fund the increase. (Act 2000-809, p. 1921, § 7.)