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SC Code § 9-1-1775 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1775. Death Benefit Plan.

 (A) The Death Benefit Plan for members of the South Carolina Retirement System, hereinafter referred to as the "plan", is established for the purpose of providing for the payment of the benefits provided by Section 9-1-1770.  (B) A separate fund, to be known as the Death Benefit Plan Reserve Fund, is established within the South Carolina Retirement System, hereinafter referred to as the "retirement system", to be held in trust by the board. The fund shall consist of all contributions paid by the employers and other monies received and paid into the fund for death benefit purposes, and of the investment earnings on these monies, and must be used only to pay the death benefits prescribed by subsection (C). Concurrent with the determination of the initial liability of the plan for the balance of the fiscal year on and after the effective date of the benefit, for the death benefit provided and to be paid for pursuant to this plan, there must be segregated and transferred from the Employer Annuity Accumulation Fund of the retirement system to the reserve fund created by this section the amounts determined by the actuary to be necessary to pay anticipated death benefit claims. Subsequent segregations and transfers must be made as required to pay the death benefit prescribed by subsection (C) from the reserve fund provided by this section.  (C) At the death of a member who has met the eligibility requirements set forth in Section 9-1-1770, a benefit equal to the death benefit provided by Section 9-1-1770 must be paid to the person nominated by the member in accordance with the provisions of Section 9-1-1770 or to the member's estate.  (D) The actuary shall investigate the claim experience of the plan as provided by Section 9-1-250. On the basis of these investigations and upon the recommendation of the actuary, as provided in Section 9-1-1210, the board shall certify the contribution rates necessary to fund the death benefit authorized to be paid by the plan. As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal year, the board shall determine the contribution which the employers participating in the plan are required to pay into the reserve fund to discharge the obligations of the plan for the past fiscal year.  (E) Each qualified member of the retirement system is to be covered as provided in this section effective commencing as of June 19, 1973.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 311, Section 34, eff June 4, 2008; 2010 Act No. 176, Section 2, eff May 19, 2010.
SC Code § 9-1-1780 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1780. Recomputation allowances of certain persons having thirty-five or more years of creditable service.

 Effective July 1, 1969, any monthly retirement allowance which commenced prior to such date to or on account of a Class Two member who, at retirement or earlier death, had completed thirty-five or more years of creditable service but had not reached his sixty-fifth birthday shall be recomputed to reflect the deletion as of July 1, 1969 of the five-twelfths of one percent reduction previously applicable. Commencing July 1, 1969 the recomputed allowance, modified to reflect the election, if any, of an optional benefit under Section 9-1-1620, shall be payable.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-125; 1969 (56) 259.
SC Code § 9-1-1795 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1795. Employment of certain retired teachers without loss of retirement benefits; procedure by which retired teachers may be employed.

 (A) A retired member of the system may return to employment covered by the system without affecting the monthly retirement allowance he is receiving from the system if the retired member is a certified teacher and is employed by a school district to teach in the classroom in his area of certification in a critical academic need area or geographic need area as defined by the State Board of Education.  (B) For the provisions of this section to apply, the Department of Education must review and approve, from the documentation provided by the school district, that no qualified, nonretired member is available for employment in the position, and that the member selected for employment meets the requirements of this section. However, a school district may not consider a member of the system for employment before May thirty-first of each year. After approval is received from the Department of Education, school districts must notify the State Board of Education of the engagement of a retired member as a teacher and the department must notify the State Retirement System of their exemption from the earnings limitation. If the employing district fails to notify the department of the engagement of a retired member as a teacher, the district shall reimburse the system for all benefits wrongly paid to the retired member.  (C) A school district shall pay to the system the employer contribution for active members prescribed by law with respect to any retired member engaged to perform services for the district, regardless of whether the retired member is a full-time or part-time employee, a temporary or permanent employee. If a district which is obligated to the system pursuant to this subsection fails to pay the amount due, as determined by the system, the amount must be deducted from any funds payable to the district by the State.  (D) Beginning July 1, 2001, any retired certified school teacher or certified employee may be employed in a school or school district which is in a critical geographic need area or has received a 'below average' or 'unsatisfactory' academic performance rating pursuant to the Education Accountability Act without penalty from the South Carolina Retirement System.  HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 100, Part II, Section 82, eff July 1, 1999; 2000 Act No. 387, Part II, Section 11A, eff July 1, 2000; 2000 Act No. 393, Section 17, eff August 1, 2000; 2001 Act No. 64, Section 1, eff June 28, 2001.
SC Code § 9-1-1800 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1800. Recalculation of benefits for certain persons who retired prior to July 1, 1964.

 Effective July 1, 1969, the monthly benefits payable to or on account of any member who retired from service prior to July 1, 1964 and who, had he remained in service thereafter would have been a Class Two member, shall be recalculated in accordance with the provisions of the System applicable to Class Two members retired on or after July 1, 1964, including any adjustment thereto which would be applicable under Section 9-1-1740. The benefit so determined shall be compared with the monthly benefit payable to or on account of the member under the System as in effect on June 30, 1969 inclusive of the supplemental allowances payable under the provisions of Sections 9-1-1910 and 9-1-1920, as amended, effective July 1, 1969, and Section 9-1-1930 and the increase, if any, in the monthly benefit shall be paid from the general fund of the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-127; 1969 (56) 444.
SC Code § 9-1-1812 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1812. Revision of sections upon certain conditions.

 If all or any portion of Sections 1 and 2 of Act 311 of 2008, for any reason, is held to be unconstitutional, invalid, or unenforceable, either in whole or in part, or if any of the amendments made to Section 9-1-1810 of the 1976 Code by Act 153 of 2005, for any reason, are held to be unconstitutional, invalid or unenforceable, either in whole or in part, then effective at the time of that holding:  (1) Section 9-1-1810 of the 1976 Code is amended to the version of that section in effect before the enactment of Act 153 of 2005; and  (2) Section 9-11-310 of the 1976 Code is amended to the version of Section 9-11-310 in effect before the enactment of Act 311 of 2008.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 311, Section 57, eff June 4, 2008.  Editor's Note  Sections 9-1-1810 and 9-11-310, referenced in the text, were repealed by 2012 Act No. 278.
SC Code § 9-1-1814 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1814. Revision of sections upon certain conditions.

 If for any reason, an assumed annual rate of return on the investments of the assets of the South Carolina Retirement System and the South Carolina Police Officers Retirement System of less than eight percent is approved or otherwise takes effect, then effective at that time the provisions of Section 9-1-1812 apply and Section 9-1-1810 of the 1976 Code is amended to the version of that section in effect before the enactment of Act 311 of 2008.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 311, Section 58, eff June 4, 2008.  Editor's Note  Section 9-1-1810, referenced in the text, was repealed by 2012 Act No. 278.
SC Code § 9-1-1815 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1815. Retirement allowance adjustments.

 Effective beginning July 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, the retirement allowance received by retirees and their surviving annuitants inclusive of supplemental allowances payable pursuant to the provisions of Sections 9-1-1910, 9-1-1920, and 9-1-1930, must be increased by the lesser of one percent or five hundred dollars. Only those retirees and their surviving annuitants in receipt of an allowance on July first preceding the effective date of the increase are eligible to receive the increase. Any increase in allowance granted pursuant to this section must be included in the determination of any subsequent increase.  HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 278, Pt I, Section 2.A, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-1-1830 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1830. Payment and transfer of funds to the employer annuity accumulation fund.

 Starting July 1, 1981, there must be paid to the system, and credited to the post-retirement increase special fund, contributions by the employers in an amount equal to two-tenths of one percent of the earnable compensation of each member employed by each employer. In addition, the board, on the recommendation of the actuary, shall transfer a portion of the monies as are received pursuant to Section 9-1-1050 that are available due to actuarial gains in the system if the transfers do not adversely affect the funding status of the system. Starting July 1, 1986, all contributions previously credited to the post-retirement increase special fund must be diverted and credited to the employer annuity accumulation fund.  HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 407, Section 9; 1986 Act No. 309 Section 8, eff February 4, 1986; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt IV, Subpt 2, Section 44, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-1-1850 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1850. Purchases of additional service credit by members with at least twenty-five years of creditable service.

 A member who has at least twenty-five years of creditable service may elect to receive up to three years of additional service credit as though the additional service credit were rendered by the member as an employee or member upon paying into the member's retirement system, during the ensuing number of years the member wishes to purchase in the manner the Comptroller General shall direct, the employer and employee contributions that would be due for the position that the member presently holds at the salary level in effect during those years. If the position is consolidated or eliminated after the member's retirement, the member shall pay the employer and employee contributions during the remaining required years at a level equal to what these contributions were for the position before its consolidation or elimination. The member also shall pay the employer and employee cost for health and dental insurance in effect during the ensuing years the member wishes to purchase. The additional service credit qualifies the member for retirement and the member must terminate employment within ninety days after electing the option provided by this section. The salary level of the position the member presently holds, during the ensuing years the member pays the employer and employee contributions, is attributable to the member for purposes of determining the member's average final compensation.  The retirement benefits of the member shall not commence until the time benefits would have been paid when the member had completed twenty-eight years of service.  The option allowed by this section cannot be exercised if the member has purchased nonqualified service pursuant to Section 9-1-1140(E).  HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 450, Section 1, eff May 26, 1986; 1988 Act No. 632, Section 1, eff June 7, 1988; 1993 Act No. 166, Section 3A, eff June 16, 1993; 1994 Act No. 420, Section 3, eff May 25, 1994 and applies with respect to payments made pursuant to Section 9-1-1850(A) of the 1976 Code after June 30, 1994; 2001 Act No. 1, Part II, Section 2A7, eff January 1, 2001.
SC Code § 9-1-1870 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1870. Beneficiaries receiving Medicaid (Title XIX) sponsored nursing home care; effect on benefits; exception.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as provided below, retirees and beneficiaries under the State Retirement Systems receiving Medicaid (Title XIX) sponsored nursing home care as of June thirtieth of the prior fiscal year shall receive no increase in retirement benefits during the current fiscal year. However, a retired employee affected by the above prohibition may receive the scheduled increase if he is discharged from the nursing home and does not require admission to a hospital or nursing home within six months. The Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Social Services, and the State Retirement Systems must share the information needed to implement this section.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Pt IX.E(1), eff July 1, 2002.
SC Code § 9-1-1920 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1920. Minimum allowance for certain persons who retired prior to July 1, 1945.

 Any public school teacher, State employee, or employee of an employer covered by the South Carolina Retirement System who retired prior to July 1, 1945, in service with twenty or more years of such service and who has reached age sixty, shall be eligible for the minimum allowance of eighty dollars per month for the remainder of his life, such benefits to be paid from the general fund of the State. Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective July 1, 1972, the minimum allowance shall be one hundred and fifty dollars per month, plus one dollar per month for each completed year of service in excess of twenty years.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-212; 1954 (48) 1524; 1955 (49) 611; 1956 (49) 2968; 1959 (51) 370; 1961 (52) 288, 539; 1962 (52) 1905; 1964 (53) 1843; 1969 (56) 444; 1972 (57) 2590.
SC Code § 9-1-1930 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1930. Minimum allowance for certain persons whose membership became effective on or after January 1, 1953.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person whose membership in the South Carolina Retirement System became effective on or after January 1, 1953, and who had twenty or more years creditable service performed prior to July 1, 1945, shall receive the benefits and come under the provisions of Section 9-1-1910. The provisions of this section shall become effective as of May 18, 1959, or as of the effective date of the member's retirement or withdrawal from the South Carolina Retirement System, whichever is the later date.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-213; 1962 (52) 1964.
SC Code § 9-1-1940 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1940. Minimum allowance for certain persons whose membership became effective on or after January 1, 1951.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person whose membership in the South Carolina Retirement System became effective on or after January 1, 1951, and who had twenty or more years creditable service performed prior to July 1, 1945, shall receive the benefits and come under the provisions of Section 9-1-1920, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, as amended.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-213.1; 1966 (54) 2622.
SC Code § 9-1-1950 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1950. Minimum allowance for certain members of General Assembly.

 Any member of the General Assembly who may retire under the provisions of the South Carolina Retirement Act and has twenty or more years of creditable service shall be paid in the same manner as provided in Section 9-1-1910 a monthly sum in addition to the retirement allowance he may receive under such act, to provide him a minimum of eighty dollars per month, plus one dollar per month for each completed year of such service in excess of twenty years. Should such member of the General Assembly elect to receive a reduced retirement allowance as provided in such act, he shall be paid under the provisions of this section only such amount as would be paid under this section had he not elected such optional allowance.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-214; 1965 (54) 622.
SC Code § 9-1-1960 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1960. Additional payments to certain members of the General Assembly effective July 1, 1972.

 Effective July 1, 1972, any member of the General Assembly who has retired or may retire under the provisions of the South Carolina Retirement Act and has twenty or more years of creditable service shall be paid in the same manner as provided in Section 9-1-1910 a monthly sum in addition to the retirement allowance he may receive under such act, to provide him a gross minimum of one hundred and fifty dollars per month, plus one dollar per month for each completed year of such service in excess of twenty years. Should such member of the General Assembly elect to receive a reduced retirement allowance as provided in such act, he shall be paid under the provisions of this section only such amount as would be paid under this section had he not elected such optional allowance.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-214.1; 1972 (57) 2590.
SC Code § 9-1-1970 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1970. Compensation used for determining benefits to be subject to federal limitations.

 Effective as of January 1, 1996, the annual compensation of a member taken into account for determining all benefits provided under this retirement system is subject to the limitations set forth in Section 401(a)(17) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and any regulations promulgated thereunder, as adjusted for any cost-of-living increases in accordance with Section 401(a)(17)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code. Annual compensation means compensation during the plan year or such other consecutive twelve-month period over which compensation is otherwise determined under the retirement system hereinafter referred to as the determination period. The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to annual compensation for the determination period that begins with or within such calendar year. However, the limitation on compensation does not apply to the compensation of an individual who became a member of this retirement system before January 1, 1996.  HISTORY: 1995 Act No. 48, Section 1, eff upon approval (became law without the Governor's signature on May 18, 1995); 2008 Act No. 311, Section 9, eff June 4, 2008.
SC Code § 9-1-1975 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 1 - South Carolina Retirement System|Section 9-1-1975. Compliance with USERRA.

 Effective December 12, 1994, and notwithstanding any provision in this chapter to the contrary, contributions, benefits, and service credit with respect to qualified military service shall be provided in accordance with Section 414(u) of the Internal Revenue Code.  HISTORY: 2008 Act No. 311, Section 10, eff June 4, 2008.
SC Code § 9-2-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 2 - Retirement And Preretirement Advisory Panel|Section 9-2-10. Advisory panel.

 There is created the South Carolina Retirement and Preretirement Advisory Panel for the purpose of advising the Director of the South Carolina Retirement System and the Director of the State Personnel Division on matters relating to retirement and preretirement programs and policies.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 696 Section 1; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt IV, Subpt 2, Section 45, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-2-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 2 - Retirement And Preretirement Advisory Panel|Section 9-2-20. Membership of panel; terms of offices; vacancies; officers.

 (a) The panel shall consist of eight members appointed by the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority and must be constituted as follows:  (1) one member representing municipal employees;  (2) one member representing county employees;  (3) three members representing state employees, one of whom must be retired and one of whom must be an active or retired law enforcement officer who is contributing to or receiving benefits from the Police Officers Retirement System. If this law enforcement member is retired, the other two members representing state employees do not have to be retired;  (4) two members representing public school teachers, one of whom must be retired;  (5) one member representing the higher education teachers. The board of directors shall invite the appropriate associations, groups, and individuals to recommend persons to serve on the panel.  (b) The terms of the members shall be for four years and until their successors have been appointed and qualify. No member shall serve more than two consecutive terms. After serving two consecutive terms a member shall be eligible to serve again, four years after the expiration of his second term. Provided that of those first appointed, four of the members shall serve for a term of two years. In the event of a vacancy, a successor shall be appointed in the same manner as the original appointment to serve the unexpired term.  (c) A chairman, vice chairman, and secretary shall be elected from among the membership to serve for terms of two years.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 696 Section 2; 1991 Act No. 170, Section 4, eff June 28, 1991; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt IV, Subpt 2, Section 45, eff July 1, 2012.
SC Code § 9-2-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 9 - Retirement Systems|Chapter 2 - Retirement And Preretirement Advisory Panel|Section 9-2-30. Meetings of panel.

 The panel shall meet once a year with the Director of the South Carolina Retirement System, once a year with the State Personnel Director, and once a year with the Executive Director of the South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority. The chairman may call additional meetings of the panel at such other times as considered necessary and shall give timely notice of such meetings.  HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 696 Section 3; 2012 Act No. 278, Pt IV, Subpt 2, Section 45, eff July 1, 2012.