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CT Gen Stat § 5-192e (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-192e - Application.

 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the provisions of sections 5-192e to 5-192x, inclusive, shall apply to all members who first join the state employees retirement system after July 1, 1984, and members of bargaining units which are party to a collective bargaining agreement granting the right to transfer from tier I to tier II or from tier II to tier I shall have the right to effect such transfers according to the terms of the agreement upon its approval by the General Assembly in accordance with the provisions of chapter 68. The provisions of said sections shall also apply to members who rejoin the system after January 1, 1984, unless (1) the employee remains entitled to either an immediate or a deferred monthly benefit, other than a benefit arising solely from his own contributions, due to earlier participation in the system, (2) the employee's period of prior service, as defined for purposes of tier I, is longer than the period between his date of prior severance and his date of new membership, or (3) the employee returns to state service following a period during which he was receiving disability retirement benefits under section 5-169. In any such event, such former employee shall be subject to the provisions of the tier I retirement plan.(b) If a member is absent from state service on January 1, 1984, due to service in the armed forces of the United States, and returns to state service within ninety days, after having become entitled to release from active duty in the armed forces or after hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year, he shall not be deemed to have severed service for purposes of subsection (a) of this section.(c) If a member is absent from state service on January 1, 1984, due to a leave of absence and returns to state service immediately upon the expiration of such leave, he shall not be deemed to have severed service for purposes of subsection (a) of this section.(d) In the event that there is a conflict between the provisions of sections 5-192e to 5-192x, inclusive, and the provisions of any other law, the provisions of said sections shall govern, provided any employee in state service who is a member of the teachers' retirement system prior to October 1, 1982, and who transfers to the state employees retirement system in accordance with subsection (h) of section 5-160, shall join tier I.(P.A. 83-533, S. 21, 54; P.A. 85-510, S. 27, 35; P.A. 87-484, S. 5, 10.)History: P.A. 85-510 amended Subsec. (a) to change date after which Secs. 5-192e to 5-192x, inclusive, shall apply to all members joining the retirement system from January 1, 1985, to July 1, 1985, and to include reference to collective bargaining agreements granting the right to transfer from tier II to tier I and amended Subsec. (d) to replace reference to “teacher” in state service with reference to “employee” in state service; P.A. 87-484 made technical change in Subsec. (a)(2).
CT Gen Stat § 5-192g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-192g - Eligibility and membership.

 (a) Membership in the tier II plan shall be required for each state employee, whether or not exempt from the classified service, appointed after January 1, 1984, unless specifically excluded in this section or unless section 5-192e mandates coverage under the tier I plan. Except as indicated in subsection (d) of this section, membership commences on the later of the first day of employment or July 7, 1983.(b) Membership in the tier II plan shall be required for each employee in state service on June 30, 1982, who had not previously been a member of the state employees retirement system, and who had not previously elected to become a member of the state employees retirement system or any other Connecticut retirement plan, unless specifically excluded in this section.(c) Teachers not in state service are not eligible for membership in the tier II plan.(d) Any teacher or professional staff member as described in subsection (g) of section 5-160, first employed on or after January 1, 1984, shall be covered under the tier II plan unless he is eligible for and elects membership within six months after employment in the teachers' retirement system or an alternate retirement program. In the absence of such an election, membership hereunder shall be retroactive to the first day of employment. Any such individual shall be a member in only one of the three systems or programs.(e) Members of the judiciary eligible for retirement under the provisions of section 51-50 or section 51-50a are not eligible for membership in the tier II plan unless they elect to remain or be reinstated as members of the state employees retirement system under section 5-192h.(f) Membership in the tier II plan shall be required for each employee of the Connecticut Institute for Municipal Studies unless specifically excluded in this section or unless section 5-192e mandates coverage under the tier I plan.(P.A. 83-533, S. 23, 54; P.A. 93-429, S. 5, 7; P.A. 02-140, S. 6.)History: P.A. 93-429 added Subsec. (f) to extend membership in the state's tier II retirement plan to employees of the Connecticut Institute for Municipal Studies, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 02-140 amended Subsec. (f) by deleting reference to Sec. 1-135, effective July 1, 2002.
CT Gen Stat § 5-192h (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-192h - Election by judges.

 (a) Any person who is appointed a judge of the Supreme Court or Superior Court and who has at the time of his appointment at least ten years of credited service under the tier II plan may, at any time within ten years after initial appointment as a judge to any such courts, elect to remain, or, if he has withdrawn from the tier II plan, to be reinstated as a member of the tier II plan in lieu of participation in the benefits of sections 51-49 to 51-50b, inclusive, and 51-51, and to receive credit for retirement purposes for the period of service as such a judge. Any contributions made under section 51-50b by any such judge prior to such election shall be paid from the judges and compensation commissioners' retirement system to such judge. Such judge shall be credited, for purposes of retirement under the tier II plan with the period of his service as a judge. No election under this section or under section 5-166a may be made by a tier II member other than one with at least ten years of credited service under the tier II plan.(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, any retired state employee who is appointed a judge and who resigns prior to retirement as a judge shall not receive a reduction in the amount of retirement income or retirement benefits that he would have received had he remained a retired state employee, including any cost of living allowances granted to retired state employees.(P.A. 83-533, S. 24, 54.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-192j (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-192j - Credited service.

 (a) All vesting service rendered on or after October 1, 1982, by a member of the tier II plan shall be credited service under the plan. Any period of absence recognized as service under subsection (b) or (e) of section 5-192i, shall, however, be excluded from an employee's credited service unless it is included under subsection (b) of this section. Any period between a severance from service date and a reemployment date which is recognized as vesting service under subsection (a) of section 5-192i shall be excluded from credited service.(b) Credited service shall include any period of service in the armed forces of the United States which is included in a member's vesting service pursuant to subsection (b) of section 5-192i, except that no credit shall be given hereunder for any military service beyond a total period of the employee's compulsory service, if any, plus three years.(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, any vesting service granted pursuant to subsections (h) and (i) of section 5-192i shall also be included as credited service, provided the requirements of the applicable subsection are met.(d) Subject to the requirements of this subsection, credited service shall also include war service, as defined in section 27-103, and up to three years of national emergency service, as defined by law, for normal, hazardous duty and early retirements. A member of the tier II plan who has performed war service or national emergency service may receive credited service for the period of such service, provided the member who has performed such service has not received and will not receive a pension for such period or periods, and provided further that such credited service not exceed ten years in the aggregate. To receive such service credit, a member shall apply to the Retirement Commission within one year of his commencement of state service.(e) Credited service shall include any period of municipal service while a member of the Connecticut municipal employees' retirement system, provided the tier II member claiming credit for such service (1) has at least ten years of vesting service under the tier II plan, and (2) has not received and will not receive any retirement allowance from the municipal system for such years of municipal service.(P.A. 83-533, S. 26, 54; P.A. 85-502, S. 7, 9; 85-510, S. 29, 35.)History: P.A. 85-502 amended Subsec. (c) to provide that vesting service granted pursuant to Sec. 5-192i(i) shall be included as credited service and made technical change; P.A. 85-510 amended Subsec. (d) to provide that credited service shall also include “up to three years of national emergency service, as defined by law,” and to make technical changes and added Subsec. (e) re credit for municipal service while a member of the Connecticut municipal employees' retirement system.
CT Gen Stat § 5-192k (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-192k - Part-time employees; eligibility; computation of benefits.

 (a) For purposes of determining eligibility for benefits for part-time employees under sections 5-192l, 5-192m, 5-192o and 5-192p, a member's part-time service shall be treated as full-time service.(b) For purposes of computing the retirement benefit payable to a member whose service consists solely of part-time service without variation in the number of hours worked during all periods of his state service, such member's service shall be treated as full-time service.(c) For purposes of computing the retirement benefit payable to a member whose service consists of part-time and full-time service or whose service consists of part-time service rendered in different proportions to a full-time schedule, such member's years of service and average salary shall be proportionately adjusted to produce a retirement benefit equivalent to that payable if his service had been rendered at an unvarying rate.(P.A. 83-533, S. 27, 54.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-192m (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-192m - Early retirement.

 (a) Each member of tier II who has attained age fifty-five and has completed ten or more years of vesting service, shall be retired on his own application on the first day of any future month named in the application. Benefits shall be payable from that date provided the member is no longer in state employment.(b) Each member referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall receive a monthly retirement income beginning on his retirement date equal to the benefit provided in subsection (c) of section 5-192l based on his final average earnings and credited service at the member's retirement date, but then permanently reduced by one-half of one per cent for each month his retirement precedes his attainment of age sixty-five.(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, for each member referred to in subsection (a) of this section who has completed twenty-five or more years of vesting service, the monthly retirement income shall be the greater of the amount calculated under subsection (b) of this section or (1) if retirement occurs before July 1, 1983, $200; (2) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1983, and on or before June 30, 1984, $220; (3) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1984, and on or before June 30, 1985, $240; (4) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1985, and on or before June 30, 1986, $260; (5) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1986, and on or before June 30, 1987, $280; (6) if on or after July 1, 1987, $300.(P.A. 83-533, S. 29, 54.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-192n (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-192n - Hazardous duty retirement.

 (a) Each “hazardous duty member” who has completed twenty-five years of credited service while a hazardous duty member may be retired on his own application on the first day of any future month named in the application. For this purpose, leaves of absence, military service, and any other period of nonstate employment which is included as credited service shall be deemed credited service while a hazardous duty member only if state employment as a hazardous duty member immediately precedes and immediately succeeds such period of nonstate employment.(b) Each member referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall receive a monthly retirement income beginning on his retirement date equal to the greater of one-twelfth of two per cent of his final average earnings multiplied by his years of credited service whether while a hazardous duty member or otherwise or (1) if retirement occurs before July 1, 1983, $200; (2) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1983, and on or before June 30, 1984, $220; (3) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1984, and on or before June 30, 1985, $240; (4) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1985, and on or before June 30, 1986, $260; (5) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1986, and on or before June 30, 1987, $280; (6) if on or after July 1, 1987, $300.(P.A. 83-533, S. 30, 54.)Cited. 234 C. 424.
CT Gen Stat § 5-192o (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-192o - Deferred vested retirement.

 (a) A member of tier II who terminates before he is eligible for retirement, but after completing ten years of vesting service, shall be eligible for a vested retirement income calculated as described in subsection (c) of section 5-192l commencing upon reaching his sixty-fifth birthday. Alternatively, the member can elect to receive a retirement income commencing any time after his fifty-fifth birthday which is equal to the income that would be paid at age sixty-five, reduced by one-half of one per cent for each month the benefit commencement date precedes the member's sixty-fifth birthday.(b) A member of tier II who has attained the age of seventy and completed at least five years of vesting service shall be vested in his retirement benefit under section 5-192l.(c) A member of tier II who has completed twenty-five years of credited service while a hazardous duty member shall be vested in his retirement benefit under section 5-192n. For this purpose, leaves of absence, military service, and any other period of nonstate employment which is included as credited service shall be deemed credited service while a hazardous duty member only if state employment as a hazardous duty member immediately precedes and immediately succeeds such period of nonstate employment.(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this section, if the member had completed at least twenty-five years of vesting service at the time of termination, the retirement income actually payable at any time after the member's fifty-fifth birthday shall in no event be less than: (1) If retirement occurs before July 1, 1983, $200; (2) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1983, and on or before June 30, 1984, $220; (3) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1984, and on or before June 30, 1985, $240; (4) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1985, and on or before June 30, 1986, $260; (5) if retirement occurs on or after July 1, 1986, and on or before June 30, 1987, $280; (6) if on or after July 1, 1987, $300.(P.A. 83-533, S. 31, 54.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-192s (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-192s - Tier II cost of living adjustment.

 Each member who has retired under the tier II plan and who is receiving benefits, each spouse or contingent annuitant receiving income under an option specified in section 5-192q, and each spouse or contingent annuitant receiving benefits under section 5-192r, shall be eligible for an annual three per cent cost-of-living allowance increase commencing on the first anniversary date following the completion of nine months of retirement. Such cost-of-living allowance increase shall be computed on the basis of the retirement allowance to which such employee was entitled on the day preceding his latest anniversary date. The anniversary date of such employee shall be the first day of January or the first day of July following completion of nine months after the effective date of retirement. If the member was not covered by Social Security, for at least half of the period of his vesting service and the member, spouse, or contingent annuitant receiving benefits has attained age sixty-two, the cost-of-living allowance increase shall be six per cent. If on any applicable anniversary date, the Retirement Commission determines that the National Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners and clerical workers for the previous twelve-month period has increased less than the cost-of-living allowance increase provided by this section, the cost-of-living allowance increase shall be equal to the percentage change in such index, provided such cost-of-living allowance increase shall not be less than three per cent. In addition, a member's benefit may be increased by the Retirement Commission as provided in subsection (b) of section 5-162h. If a member's benefit under section 5-192p is changed under subsection (f) of said section, the new benefit will be increased by all the cost-of-living allowances that had applied to the member's previous benefit.(P.A. 83-533, S. 35, 54.)
CT Gen Stat § 5-192t (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-192t - Survivorship benefits.

 (a) No member of the tier II plan, other than any member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, shall be entitled to benefits under section 5-144 or sections 5-146 to 5-151, inclusive. Survivorship benefits shall be paid only as provided in section 5-192r and in this section.(b) If any member of tier II other than a state police officer sustains an injury while acting within the scope of his employment, which injury is not the result of his own wilful or wanton act, and dies as a result of such injury, and a spouse and a dependent child or children under eighteen years of age survive him, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be paid in equal monthly installments over a period of not less than ten years to such employee's spouse, provided any such payments shall terminate on the death or remarriage of such spouse within said ten-year period, and fifty dollars a month shall be paid for each dependent child under eighteen years of age, payable to such spouse or the guardian of such child or children until such child or children reach eighteen years of age. If such employee leaves a spouse and no child or children under eighteen years of age, the sum of fifty thousand dollars shall be paid in equal monthly installments over a period of not less than ten years, to such spouse, provided any such payments shall terminate on the death or remarriage of such spouse within such ten-year period. If such employee leaves no spouse and no child or children under eighteen years of age but leaves a parent or parents dependent upon him, the sum of fifty thousand dollars shall be paid to such employee's parent or parents in equal monthly installments over a period of not less than ten years, provided, on the death of one such parent, the surviving parent shall continue to receive the entire monthly payments under the provisions of this section and provided such payments shall cease on the death of both such parents during such ten-year period.(P.A. 83-533, S. 36, 54; P.A. 85-510, S. 9, 35; P.A. 98-263, S. 11, 21; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)History: P.A. 85-510 amended Subsec. (a) to except members of the division of state police from the provision that no member of tier II shall be entitled to benefits under Sec. 5-144 or Secs. 5-146 to 5-151, inclusive, and to delete phrase “nor shall any such member be required to contribute as provided in section 5-148” (repealed by P.A. 85-510); P.A. 98-263 amended Subsec. (b) to increase benefits payable to surviving spouse, dependent children and dependent parents over ten-year rather than five-year period, effective July 1, 1998, and applicable to any death occurring on or after January 1, 1998; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Department of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 5-192u (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 5 - State Employees|Chapter 66 - State Employees Retirement Act|Section 5-192u - Tier II member contributions not required.

 No contributions are required of members of the tier II plan for their retirement benefits.(P.A. 83-533, S. 37, 54.)