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NC Gen Stat § 135-94 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 5 - Supplemental Retirement Income Act of 1984.|§ 135-94 - Benefits.

 135-94. Benefits.(a) The Department of State Treasurer and the Board of Trustees shall establish a schedule of supplemental retirement income benefits for all members of the Supplemental Retirement Income Plan, subject to the following limitations:(1) Except as provided in G.S. 143-166.30(g1) and G.S. 143-166.50(e2), the balance in each member's account shall be fully vested at all times and shall not be subject to forfeiture for any reason.(2) All amounts maintained in a member's account shall be invested according to the member's election, as approved by the Department of State Treasurer and Board of Trustees, including but not limited to, a time deposit account, a fixed investment account, or a variable investment account. Transfers of accumulated funds shall be permitted among the various approved forms of investment.(3) The Department of State Treasurer and Board of Trustees shall provide members with alternative payment options, including survivors' options, for the distribution of benefits from the Plan upon retirement, termination, hardship, and death.(4) With the consent of the Department of State Treasurer and the Board of Trustees, amounts may be transferred from other qualified plans to the Supplemental Retirement Income Plan, provided that the trust from which such funds are transferred permits the transfer to be made and, the transfer will not jeopardize the tax status of the Supplemental Retirement Income Plan.(5) At the discretion of the Department of State Treasurer and Board of Trustees, a loan program may be implemented for members which complies with applicable State and federal laws and regulations.(b) All provisions of the Plan shall be interpreted and applied by the Department of State Treasurer and Board of Trustees in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner.(c) All benefits under the Plan shall become payable on and after January 1, 1985.(d) Contributions under the Plan may be made on and after January 1, 1985.  (1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 975; 1993, c. 531, s. 9; 2012-193, s. 15; 2020-48, s. 1.3(c).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-95 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 5 - Supplemental Retirement Income Act of 1984.|§ 135-95 - Exemption from garnishment, attachment.

 135-95. Exemption from garnishment, attachment.Except for the applications of the provisions of G.S. 143-166.30(g1), G.S. 143-166.50(e2), G.S. 110-136, and G.S. 110-136.3 et seq., and in connection with a court-ordered equitable distribution under G.S. 50-20, the right of a member in the Supplemental Retirement Income Plan to the benefits provided under this Article is nonforfeitable and exempt from levy, sale, and garnishment.  (1983 (Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 975; 1985, c. 402; 1989, c. 665, s. 2; c. 792, s. 2.6; 2012-193, s. 16.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-97 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 5 - Supplemental Retirement Income Act of 1984.|§ 135-97 - Immunity.

 135-97. Immunity.A person serving on the Supplemental Retirement Board of Trustees shall be immune individually from civil liability for monetary damages, except to the extent covered by insurance, for any act or failure to act arising out of that service, except where any of the following apply:(1) The person was not acting within the scope of that person's official duties.(2) The person was not acting in good faith.(3) The person committed gross negligence or willful or wanton misconduct that resulted in the damages or injury.(4) The person derived an improper personal financial benefit, either directly or indirectly, from the transaction.(5) The person incurred the liability from the operation of a motor vehicle.  (2013-287, s. 5.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-100 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-100 - Short title and purpose.

 135-100. Short title and purpose.(a) This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Disability Income Plan of North Carolina".(b) The purpose of this Article is to provide equitable replacement income for eligible teachers and employees who become temporarily or permanently disabled for the performance of their duty prior to retirement, and to encourage disabled teachers and employees who are able to work to seek gainful employment after a reasonable period of rehabilitation, and to provide for the accrual of retirement and ancillary benefits to the date the eligible teacher or employee meets the requirements for retirement under the provisions of this Chapter. (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-102 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-102 - Administration.

 135-102. Administration.(a) The provisions of this Article shall be administered by the Department of State Treasurer and the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System and all expenses in connection with the administration of the Plan, except for expenses incurred by and properly charged to the employer, shall be charged against and paid from the trust fund as created and provided in this Article.(b) The Plan shall have the power and privileges of a corporation and under the name of Disability Income Plan of North Carolina shall all of its business be transacted, all of its funds invested and all of its cash, securities and other property be held.(c) The Department of State Treasurer and the Board of Trustees shall have the full power and authority to adopt rules for the administration of the Plan not inconsistent with the provisions of this Article. The Department of State Treasurer and the Board of Trustees may appoint those agents, contractors, and employees as they deem advisable to carry out the terms and conditions of the Plan.(d) The Department of State Treasurer and the Board of Trustees shall designate a Medical Board to be composed of not fewer than three nor more than five physicians not eligible for benefits under the Plan. Other physicians, medical clinics, institutions or agencies may be employed to conduct such medical examinations and tests necessary to provide the Medical Board with clinical evidence as may be needed to determine eligibility for benefits under the Plan. The Medical Board shall investigate the results of medical examinations, clinical evidence, all essential statements and certifications by and on behalf of applicants for benefits and shall report in writing to the Board of Trustees the conclusions and recommendations upon all matters referred to it.(e) The Department of State Treasurer and the Board of Trustees may provide the benefits according to the terms and conditions of the Plan as provided in this Article either by purchasing a contract or contracts with any insurance company licensed to do business in this State or by establishing a separate trust fund qualified under Section 501(c)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-103 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-103 - Eligible participants.

 135-103. Eligible participants.(a) The eligible participants of the Disability Income Plan shall consist of:(1) All teachers and employees in service and members of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System or participants of the Optional Retirement Program on January 1, 1988.(2) All persons who become teachers and employees or re-enter service as teachers or employees and are in service and members of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System or participants of the Optional Retirement Program after January 1, 1988.(b) The participation of any person in the Disability Income Plan shall cease upon:(1) The termination of the participant's employment as a teacher or State employee, or(2) The participant's retirement under the provisions of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System or the Optional Retirement Program, or(3) The participant's becoming a beneficiary under the Plan, or(4) The participant's death.  (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q); 2014-97, s. 8.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-104 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-104 - Salary continuation.

 135-104. Salary continuation.(a) A participant shall receive no benefits from the Plan for a period of 60 continuous calendar days from the onset of disability determined as the last actual day of service, the day of the disabling event if the disabling event occurred on a day other than a normal workday, or the day succeeding at least 365 calendar days after service as a teacher or employee, whichever is later. These 60 continuous calendar days may be considered the waiting period before benefits are payable from the Plan. During this waiting period, a participant may be paid such continuation of salary as provided by an employer through the use of sick leave, vacation leave or any other salary continuation. Any such continuation of salary as provided by an employer shall not include any period a participant or beneficiary is in receipt of Workers' Compensation benefits.(b) During the waiting period a participant may return to service for trial rehabilitation for periods of not greater than five continuous days of service. Such return to service will not cause a new waiting period to begin but shall extend the waiting period by the number of days of service. (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q); 1989, c. 717, s. 9; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 779, s. 2.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-107 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-107 - Optional Retirement Program.

 135-107. Optional Retirement Program.(a) Any participant of the Optional Retirement Program who becomes a beneficiary under the Plan shall be eligible to receive long-term disability benefits so long as the beneficiary is disabled and is in receipt of a primary Social Security disability benefit until the time the beneficiary would first qualify for an unreduced service retirement benefit had the beneficiary elected to be a member of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, and shall receive no service accruals as otherwise provided members of the Retirement System under the provisions of G.S. 135-4(y). In the event a beneficiary who was a participant in the Optional Retirement Program has not been approved and is not in receipt of a primary Social Security disability benefit, the long-term disability benefit shall cease after the first 36 months of the long-term disability period. However, a beneficiary shall be entitled to a restoration of the long-term disability benefit in the event the Social Security Administration grants a retroactive approval for primary Social Security disability benefits with a benefit effective date within the first 36 months of the long-term disability period. In such event, the long-term disability benefit shall be restored retroactively to the date of cessation.(b) If a participant of the Optional Retirement Program owes an overpayment to the Disability Income Plan at the time the beneficiary would first qualify for an unreduced retirement benefit had the member elected to be a member of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, then the participant shall pay the total overpayment amount due to the Disability Income Plan. If the participant fails to pay the total amount of the overpayment due to the Disability Income Plan within six months after the earliest age at which the member could retire on an unreduced retirement allowance, then the participant shall not be allowed to enroll in a new year of coverage under the North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees until one of the following occurs:(1) The Disability Income Plan receives from the participant payment in full of the total overpayment due.(2) The participant has made payment arrangements approved by the Executive Director of the Retirement System.  (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q); 2007-325, s. 3; 2021-75, s. 6.1(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-108 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-108 - Post disability benefit adjustments.

 135-108. Post disability benefit adjustments.The compensation upon which the short-term or long-term disability benefit is calculated under the provisions of G.S. 135-105(c) or G.S. 135-106(b) may be increased by any permanent across-the-board salary increase granted to employees of the State by the General Assembly and the benefits payable to beneficiaries shall be recalculated based upon the increased compensation, reduced by any percentage increase in Social Security benefits granted by the Social Security Administration times the amount used in the reduction of benefits for primary Social Security disability or retirement benefit as provided in G.S. 135-106(b). The provisions of this section shall be subject to future acts of the General Assembly. (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q); 2001-424, s. 32.32A.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-109 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-109 - Reports of earnings.

 135-109. Reports of earnings.The Department of State Treasurer and Board of Trustees may require each beneficiary to annually provide a statement of the beneficiary's income received as compensation for services, including fees, commissions, or similar items, income received from business, and benefits received from the Social Security Administration, the federal Veterans Administration, any other federal agency, under the North Carolina Workers' Compensation Act, or under the provisions of G.S. 127A-108. The benefit payable to a beneficiary who does not or refuses to provide the information requested within 120 days after such request may be suspended until the information so requested is provided, and should such refusal or failure to provide such information continue for 180 days after such request the right of a beneficiary to a benefit under the Article may be terminated.  (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q); 2003-359, s. 23; 2016-108, s. 8.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-110 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-110 - Funding and management of funds.

 135-110. Funding and management of funds.(a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that a trust fund be created that provides an irrevocable source of funding to be used, to the extent the fund's assets are sufficient, only for disability benefits to participants and beneficiaries. Accordingly, the following provisions apply to that trust fund:(1) A trust fund, the Disability Income Plan of North Carolina Trust Fund, is hereby created to which all receipts, transfers, appropriations, contributions, investment earnings and other income belonging to the Plan shall be deposited, and from which all benefits and expenses against the Plan shall be disbursed. The Board of Trustees shall be the trustee of the Fund.(2) Employer and non-employer contributions to the Disability Income Plan of North Carolina Trust Fund and earnings on those contributions are irrevocable. The assets of the Fund are dedicated to providing benefits to participants and beneficiaries in accordance with the Plan's benefit terms. The assets of the Fund are not subject to the claims of creditors of the employers and non-employers making contributions to the Fund, are not subject to the claims of any creditors of the Fund's trustees and administrators, and are not subject to the claims of participants and beneficiaries.(3) Disability Income Plan of North Carolina Trust Fund assets may be used for reasonable expenses to administer benefits provided by the Fund as approved by the Board of Trustees.(b) The Board of Trustees shall on the basis of such economic and demographic assumptions duly adopted, determine and adopt a uniform percentage of compensation as is defined in Article 1 of this Chapter which would be sufficient to fund the benefits payable under this Article on a term cost method basis as recommended by an actuary engaged by the Board of Trustees. Such uniform percentage of compensation shall not be inconsistent with acts of the General Assembly as may be thereafter adopted.(c) Each employer shall contribute monthly to the Plan an amount determined by applying the uniform percentage of compensation adopted by the Board of Trustees multiplied by the compensation of teachers and employees reportable to the Retirement System or the Optional Retirement Program. Such monthly contribution shall be paid by the employer from the same source of funds from which the compensation of teachers and employees are paid.(d) The State Treasurer shall be the custodian of the funds and shall invest the assets of the fund in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 147-69.2 and G.S. 147-69.3.  (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q); 2017-129, s. 2(o).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-111 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-111 - Applicability of other pension laws.

 135-111. Applicability of other pension laws.Subject to the provisions of this Article, the provisions of G.S. 135-9, entitled "Exemption from taxes, garnishment, attachment, etc."; G.S. 135-10, entitled "Protection against fraud"; G.S. 135-10.1, entitled "Failure to Respond"; and G.S. 135-17, entitled "Facility of payment" shall be applicable to this Article and to benefits paid pursuant to the provisions of this Article.  (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q); 2005-91, s. 7; 2012-185, s. 3(b); 2013-288, s. 8.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-111.1 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-111.1 - Improper receipt of decedent's Disability Income Plan allowance.

 135-111.1. Improper receipt of decedent's Disability Income Plan allowance.A person is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor if the person, with the intent to defraud, receives money as a result of cashing, depositing, or receiving a direct deposit of a decedent's Disability Income Plan allowance and the person (i) knows that he or she is not entitled to the decedent's Disability Income Plan allowance, (ii) receives the benefit at least two months after the date of the beneficiary's death, and (iii) does not attempt to inform this Retirement System of the beneficiary's death.  (2013-288, s. 9(a).)
NC Gen Stat § 135-112 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-112 - Transition provisions.

 135-112. Transition provisions.(a) Any participant in service as of the date of ratification of this Article and who becomes disabled after one year of membership service will be eligible for all benefits provided under this Article notwithstanding the requirement of five years' membership service to receive the long-term benefit; provided, however, any beneficiary who receives benefits as a result of this transition provision before completing five years of membership service shall receive lifetime benefits in lieu of service accruals under the Retirement System as otherwise provided in G.S. 135-4(y).(b) All benefit recipients under the former Disability Salary Continuation Plan provided for in G.S. 135-34 and the rules adopted thereto shall become beneficiaries under this Plan under the same provisions and conditions including the benefit amounts payable as were provided under the former Disability Salary Continuation Plan. Any benefit recipient under the former Disability Salary Continuation Plan who returns to service on or after January 1, 1988, who subsequently becomes disabled due to the same disabling condition within 90 days after restoration to service shall not become a participant of the Disability Income Plan but shall be entitled to a restoration of the disability benefit under the same provisions and conditions, including the benefit amounts payable, as were provided under the former Disability Salary Continuation Plan, and shall be entitled to make application for disability retirement benefits under the Retirement System under the same provisions and conditions as were provided members whose service terminated prior to January 1, 1988.(c) Any person who retired on a disability retirement allowance from the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System prior to the effective date of this Article shall be entitled to apply for and receive any benefits that would have otherwise been provided under the Disability Salary Continuation Plan provided for in G.S. 135-34 and shall become beneficiaries under this Plan, under the same provisions and conditions, including the benefit amounts payable, as were provided under the former Disability Salary Continuation Plan. (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q); 1989, c. 717, s. 12.)
NC Gen Stat § 135-113 (2021)
2021 North Carolina General Statutes|Chapter 135 - Retirement System for Teachers and State Employees; Social Security; State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees|Article 6 - Disability Income Plan of North Carolina.|§ 135-113 - Reservation of power to change.

 135-113. Reservation of power to change.The benefits provided in this Article as applicable to a participant who is not a beneficiary under the provisions of this Article shall not be considered as a part of an employment contract, either written or implied, and the General Assembly reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify, amend in whole or in part or repeal the provisions of this Article. (1987, c. 738, s. 29(q).)