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CT Gen Stat § 5-163b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-163b - Supplemental retirement benefit for certain members eligible to retire on or before July 1, 1989.

 Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter and subsection (f) of section 5-278 to the contrary, any member of the state employees retirement system (1) who is in active state service or receiving workers' compensation payments, and who has ten or more years of credited state service and is eligible to retire on or before July 1, 1989, or (2) who is eligible for a disability retirement pursuant to section 5-169 or 5-192p on or before July 1, 1989, shall be eligible for a supplemental retirement benefit, provided such member submits a written application for retirement to the Retirement Division of the office of the Comptroller on or after June 1, 1989, but before October 1, 1989. Such retirement shall become effective the first day of the month following receipt of such application. No member whose application for retirement is received on or after October 1, 1989, shall be eligible for such benefit. The amount of the supplemental retirement benefit shall be equal to two per cent of such member's annual base rate of pay, in accordance with any applicable compensation schedule, as of June 29, 1989, multiplied by the number of such member's completed years of credited state service, taken to completed months, provided accrued vacation time shall not be considered credited state service for the purposes of such benefit, and provided further the amount of any such benefit shall not exceed twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars. The supplemental retirement benefit shall be paid to such member in thirty-six equal monthly installments, commencing with the month in which such member's retirement becomes effective. If any such member dies before such payments are completed the remainder of the benefit payable to such member pursuant to this section shall be paid to such member's estate in a single payment.(P.A. 89-323, S. 1, 4.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-165b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-165b - Options elected prior to July 1, 1969.

 Section 5-165b is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.(1969, P.A. 661, S. 4; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-167 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-167 - Contributions for prior years.

 (a) A former member who withdrew his retirement contributions and who is reemployed in state service within five years after he left state service, or who is reemployed and due to such reemployment is covered by the provisions of the tier I plan as determined under subsection (a) of section 5-192e, may elect to return his withdrawn contributions and interest paid on such contributions to the state, with interest as provided in subsection (c) of this section. Service can be restored only if payments commence within two years after reemployment or on or before January 1, 1985, if later.(b) A member who was in state service before September 1, 1939, but did not become a member before September 1, 1941, may elect to make retirement contributions in the amount which would have been due from him from September 1, 1939, to the date of his election, had he been a member throughout this period, with interest as provided in subsection (c) of this section.(c) Retirement contributions payable under subsection (a) or (b) of this section may be paid by the member either by (1) a single lump sum payment of contributions plus interest paid on such contributions, with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent per year calculated from the date of withdrawal to the date of payment, or (2) payroll deductions of the total amount established in subdivision (1) of this subsection, as determined by the Retirement Commission over a period not to exceed thirty-six months, plus interest on such amount at the rate of five per cent per year to be paid over such period.(1949 Rev., S. 396; 1957, P.A. 588, S. 1; 1958 Rev., S. 5-116; 1961, P.A. 234, S. 16; 1963, P.A. 399, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 126, S. 1; P.A. 83-533, S. 14, 54; P.A. 84-411, S. 5, 8; P.A. 87-484, S. 2, 10; P.A. 05-288, S. 33.)History: 1961 act “restated” state employees retirement act “in a simpler, clearer and more orderly form”; 1963 act deleted subsection prohibiting credit for prior service in connection with application for nonservice connected disability retirement within five years after payment in full for prior service credit; 1971 act replaced payments of twelve monthly installments with payroll deductions determined by retirement commission over a period of not more than three years; P.A. 83-533 amended Subsec. (a) to provide for restoration of prior service of former member whose reemployment renders him subject to tier II; P.A. 84-411 amended Subsec. (a) to require return to the state of interest paid on withdrawn contributions by former member who elects to return withdrawn contributions; P.A. 87-484 amended Subsec. (c) to clarify provisions re payment of retirement contributions; P.A. 05-288 made a technical change in Subsecs. (a) and (b), effective July 13, 2005.
CT Gen Stat § 5-168a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-168a - Death benefit where member elected option.

 If income payments are payable from the state employees retirement system under section 5-165 or section 5-165a to a beneficiary of a member, then the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of section 5-168 shall not apply to the beneficiary as long as such income payments continue. If the member retired and died prior to August 1, 1986, after the income payments cease, a death benefit shall be payable to the beneficiary in an amount equal to the excess of the member's retirement contributions and accrued interest over the sum of twenty-five per cent of such income payments made from the state employees retirement system. If the member retires and dies on or after August 1, 1986, after the income payments cease, a death benefit shall be payable to the beneficiary in an amount equal to the member's retirement contributions and accrued interest reduced by the federal tax exclusion ratio times such income payments made from the state employees retirement system.(1967, P.A. 665; P.A. 83-533, S. 47, 54; P.A. 87-484, S. 4, 10; P.A. 88-364, S. 113, 123.)History: P.A. 83-533 deleted entire text of existing section replacing it with new material including procedure for payment of death benefit; P.A. 87-484 added death benefit provision re member who dies on or after August 1, 1986; P.A. 88-364 changed calculation of death benefit payable to beneficiary of a member who retires and dies on or after August 1, 1986, after the income payments cease, from “an amount equal to the excess of the member's retirement contributions and accrued interest over the sum of the deductible amounts, for federal tax purposes, of the income payments made to the member” to “an amount equal to the member's retirement contributions and accrued interest reduced by the federal tax exclusion ratio times such income payments made from the state employees retirement system”.
CT Gen Stat § 5-171 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-171 - Assignments prohibited.

 Any assignment by a member or beneficiary of any amount payable to either under the terms of this chapter shall be null and void. Each such payment shall be for the support of the member or beneficiary entitled thereto and shall be exempt from the claims of creditors of such member and beneficiary. If the provisions of this section are contrary to the law governing a particular circumstance, then, as to that circumstance, any payment shall be exempt to the maximum extent permitted by law.(1961, P.A. 234, S. 20.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-172 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-172 - Minor and incompetent payees.

 If the payee for any payment under this chapter is a minor, or if the Retirement Commission finds that any payee is legally incapable of giving a valid receipt and discharge for any payment due him, the Comptroller may, upon the advice of the Retirement Commission, make the payment, or any part thereof, to the person or persons whom the Retirement Commission finds to be caring for and supporting the payee, unless the Retirement Commission has received due notice of claim from a duly appointed guardian or committee of the payee. A payment so made shall be a complete discharge of the obligations of the state to the extent of and as to that payment, and the state shall have no obligations regarding the application of the payment.(1961, P.A. 234, S. 21.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-172a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-172a - Health service insurance coverage for certain retired state employees.

 Section 5-172a is repealed, effective October 1, 2002.(1971, P.A. 625, S. 1; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-174 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-174 - Educational leave.

 A member who is or has been granted a leave of absence without pay to pursue a course of study which is connected with the work of the agency and which is for the purpose of increasing his proficiency in his position shall be entitled to credit towards retirement for the period of such leave if he makes his retirement contributions for each year of such leave in an amount equal to five per cent of his salary rate at the time he was granted leave, with interest at the rate of five per cent per year.(1949 Rev., S. 387; 1957, P.A. 349; 595, S. 6; 1958 Rev., S. 5-109; 1961, P.A. 234, S. 23; 1963, P.A. 476.)History: 1961 act “restated” state employees retirement act “in a simpler, clearer and more orderly form”; 1963 act deleted leave “for educational purposes” and inserted leave “to pursue a course of study which is connected with the work of the agency and which is for the purpose of increasing his proficiency in his position.”Cited. 234 C. 424.
CT Gen Stat § 5-174a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-174a - Sick leave.

 A member of the state employees retirement system who is or has been granted a leave of absence without pay for the protection or improvement of his health shall be entitled to credit toward retirement for the period of such leave, but not to exceed twelve months within a five-year period, if he makes retirement contributions for each month of such leave in an amount equal to one-twelfth of five per cent of his salary rate at the time he was granted leave, with interest at the rate of five per cent per year from the date when any such contributions would have been due to the date of payment.(1969, P.A. 164.)Cited. 234 C. 424.
CT Gen Stat § 5-175 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-175 - State-aided institutions.

 (a) Employees of each of the following-named private corporations, herein called state-aided institutions, shall be covered by the retirement system: The American School at Hartford for the Deaf, The Connecticut Institute for the Blind and Newington Children's Hospital.(b) Each person in the service of a state-aided institution shall become a member and shall make a monthly retirement contribution in the amount determined from section 5-161 as if he were a state employee. Such institution shall deduct his retirement contributions from his salary and pay them to the state.(c) If the Retirement Commission finds that the rate of salary paid a member who is an employee of a state-aided institution, during the period of service upon which his base salary is determined for retirement purposes, exceeded the rate of salary paid by the state to its employees in a comparable category of service; or if the Retirement Commission finds that the aggregate salary increases of any such member during the last ten years of his service exceed the salary increases allowed by the state to its employees in a similar category of service; then, in either case, such excess shall be disregarded in determining the member's base salary for the purposes of section 5-162. When such excess is so disregarded, the retirement contributions made by the member on such excess shall be returned to him by the state.(d) No increase in the number of employees of a state-aided institution who may become members shall be made unless the Commissioner of Administrative Services approves such increase as to necessity and desirability.(1949 Rev., S. 401–403; 1951, S. 170d; 1958 Rev., S. 5-132–5-134; 1961, P.A. 234, S. 24; P.A. 75-34; P.A. 77-614, S. 66, 587, 610.)History: 1961 act “restated” state employees retirement act “in a simpler, clearer and more orderly form”; P.A. 75-34 deleted reference to approval of retirement commission in Subsec. (d); P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of personnel and administration with commissioner of administrative services.
CT Gen Stat § 5-175b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-175b - Time limit for purchase of certain kinds of service credit.

 Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5-176, 5-177, 5-177a, 5-181, 5-184, 5-187a, 5-189, 5-190, 5-190a, 5-192a, subsection (b) of section 5-180 and subsections (b) and (d) of section 5-182, no member who is eligible for credit for such service but who has not yet purchased such credit shall receive credit for such service on or after the first of the month following three months after June 28, 1985. Prior to that date, any employee eligible to receive such credit and who desires to receive such credit shall so notify the Retirement Commission. If such employee is financially unable to complete the payment of the required contributions for such credit prior to such date, the Retirement Commission and the employee may enter into a contract for payment of such amount in not more than fifty-two equal biweekly installments. Such installments shall include interest at five per cent per year, and such service credit shall not be granted unless payment of installments is completed. The Retirement Commission shall liberally construe the provisions of sections 5-176, 5-177, 5-177a, 5-181, 5-184, 5-187a, 5-189, 5-190, 5-190a, 5-192a, subsection (b) of section 5-180 and subsections (b) and (d) of section 5-182 and this section in determining whether an employee is eligible to purchase such credit.(P.A. 83-533, S. 18, 54; P.A. 84-411, S. 6, 8; P.A. 85-510, S. 22, 35.)History: P.A. 84-411 added references to Secs. 5-187a and 5-191; P.A. 85-510 deleted references to purchase of credit for service under Sec. 5-191 and extended deadline for notification to retirement commission re purchase of credit for service from October 1, 1984, to the first of the month following three months after June 28, 1985.
CT Gen Stat § 5-176 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-176 - Prior public school service.

 A member with permanent status who was previously employed in the public schools of this state and who was a member of the Teachers' Retirement Association, may receive credit for retirement purposes for all such service for which he paid assessments. Such member shall make retirement contributions equal to five per cent of salaries received for such service, with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent per year from September 1, 1917, or from the date of such employment thereafter, to the date of payment. If the member was in state service on or before June 30, 1967, such payment shall be made before June 30, 1971. If the member entered or reentered state service on or after July 1, 1967, such payment shall be made within five years from the date of employment or reemployment as a state employee with permanent status. No such member shall be eligible for retirement credit under this section until he has completed ten years of state service and, in the event of his retirement while ineligible for credit under this section, all contributions and interest thereon paid by him under this section shall be refunded. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, any member with permanent status who was employed in the public schools of this state before July 1, 1980, shall receive retirement credit for his or her period of membership in said teacher's retirement system upon payment of contributions equal to five per cent of his or her salary for such period plus an amount actuarially determined by the Retirement Commission as necessary to fund the increase in benefits payable by reason of such receipt of retirement credit by June 30, 1981.(1959, P.A. 441; 1961, P.A. 234, S. 25; February, 1965, P.A. 343, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 648; 731; 1969, P.A. 345; P.A. 80-407, S. 3, 4.)History: 1961 act “restated” state employees retirement act “in a simpler, clearer and more orderly form”; 1965 act updated statute to refer to members in state service on or after October 1, 1960, rather than October 1, 1959, and changed corresponding date for payment by such members to October 1, 1965, from October 1, 1964; 1967 acts included employees of commission for higher education and its constituent units (state colleges and community colleges) and teachers in state service under provisions of section, changed dates regarding service and payments and provided for refunds if person retires while ineligible for credit under section provisions; 1969 act deleted references to specific employing agencies, leaving section applicable to “A member with permanent status who was previously employed in the public schools ...” and changed dates regarding service and payments, advancing them by two years; P.A. 80-407 added provisions concerning retirement credit for people employed in public schools before July 1, 1980, who are members of teachers' retirement system.
CT Gen Stat § 5-177a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-177a - Credit for university employees with prior service as hospital pharmacist.

 Any person in the unclassified service employed full time by The University of Connecticut, who served prior to his employment by the state in a teaching or administrative position as a hospital pharmacist in a teaching and research hospital affiliated with an educational institution in another state, for which service he has received, or will receive, no retirement benefit or pension, may, subject to the following condition, gain credit for such prior service, not to exceed ten years in the aggregate, on paying to the State Employees Retirement Fund, for each year of such prior service, six per cent of his annual rate of compensation when he first became a full-time employee of this state. Such payment shall be made before July 1, 1966, or within one year of his first full-time employment with the state, whichever is later. When a person who has gained credit for such prior service retires, not more than one year of such out-of-state service may be counted for each two years of state service, provided, if such person has purchased more of such out-of-state service than can be counted, refund of the amount paid on the extra years of service shall be made.(February, 1965, P.A. 341.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-178 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-178 - Probation officers.

 Any municipal employee who has been taken into state service under the provisions of section N231 of the November, 1955, supplement to the general statutes shall be credited with his entire period of service as a municipal employee for retirement purposes; provided he has made retirement contributions for each year of his municipal service, based upon his salary for such year, equal to those he would have made had he been a member during such period.(November, 1955, SN4; 1958 Rev., S. 5-128; 1961, P.A. 234, S. 27.)History: 1961 act “restated” state employees retirement act “in a simpler, clearer and more orderly form”.
CT Gen Stat § 5-179 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-179 - Services paid for by federal grant.

 The time during which any state employee performed services, the direction of which remained in the state agency to which such employee was attached although his compensation was paid directly by federal grant, shall be considered a part of his state service for retirement purposes, provided his retirement contributions have been continuous since September 1, 1939, or, if not continuous, have been made with interest thereon at the rate of five per cent per year.(1949 Rev., S. 395; 1958 Rev., S. 5-118; 1961, P.A. 234, S. 28.)History: 1961 act “restated” state employees retirement act “in a simpler, clearer and more orderly form.”
CT Gen Stat § 5-181a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-181a - Credit for service with United States federal government.

 Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5-175b, a member of the state employees retirement system who has been in the active full-time employment of the United States federal government for some past period or periods for which he has received or will receive no retirement benefit or pension and for which he is not eligible to obtain credit for retirement purposes under any section of this chapter may receive credit for such period or periods, not to exceed ten years in the aggregate, by making contributions to the State Employees Retirement Fund, for each year of such prior service, equal to two, or five per cent of his federal salary, as appropriate for plan membership, for the period of such federal service, plus interest thereon at the rate of five per cent per year from the time such service was rendered to date of payment. Such payment may be made by payroll deductions as determined by the Retirement Commission over a period not to exceed twenty-four months, and such installments shall include interest at five per cent per year. No service credit shall be granted unless payment of all contributions and interest is completed, and then not more than one year of federal service shall be counted for each two years of Connecticut state service.(P.A. 90-308, S. 10, 15.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-181b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-181b - Continuation of membership during service as elected official.

 (a) Any member of tier I of the state employees retirement system elected to serve as an official of the state or any political subdivision of the state during the 1988 calendar year or thereafter may elect, during the time he so serves, but no longer than ten years, to continue his membership in said system. Any such member shall continue to make contributions to said system and shall be ineligible for membership in any other state or municipal retirement system during such time.(b) Any member of tier II of the state employees' retirement system elected to serve as an official of the state or any political subdivision of the state during the 1988 calendar year or thereafter may elect, during the time he so serves, but no longer than ten years, to continue his membership in said system. Any such member shall be ineligible for membership in any other state or municipal retirement system during such time.(P.A. 90-308, S. 12, 15.)