California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 1 - Administrative Personnel › Chapter 2 - Board of Administration of Public Employees' Retirement System › Subchapter 1 - Employees' Retirement System Regulations › Article 7 - Benefits › Section 581 - Retirement Allowance Deductions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Approval of Group Insurance Plans.
Any contracting agency under the Public Employees'
						Retirement System having an insurance plan for its active and retired employees
						or retired employees or any association composed of employees and persons
						retired under the Public Employees' Retirement System, or of such retired
						persons having an insurance plan for its membership, may submit such plan to
						the board for approval.
(1)
					 Eligibility.
Any person retired under the Public Employees' Retirement
						System and any beneficiary under the system who is eligible for coverage under
						an insurance plan approved by the board, may authorize, pursuant to these
						rules, deductions to be made from monthly payments of his retirement allowance
						or benefit for payment of premiums, dues, or charges under such
						plan.
(2) Forms and
					 Procedures.
The executive officer shall prescribe, subject to these
						rules, procedures and forms for the filing of authorizations.
(3) Place of Filing.
Authorization shall be filed in the office of the board
						provided, however, that the executive officer may prescribe in the alternative,
						filing with the insurer or nonprofit membership corporation issuing the
						insurance plan, if such insurer or corporation has undertaken in a writing
						filed with the board to:
(A) Supply to
					 the board statements of deductions as specified in authorizations received by
					 it and to save the State, the board and its employees harmless from liability
					 for any errors in withholding or transmitting deductions except for moneys
					 actually withheld but not transmitted.
(B) Keep all authorizations received by it
					 available for inspection by authorized representatives of the
					 board.
(4) Time of
					 Filing.
Authorizations may be made effective only with regard to
						retirement allowance payments and premiums, dues or charges becoming due more
						than 30 days after the date of receipt in the office of the board of the
						authorization, or, where the alternative procedure under these rules is
						prescribed by the executive officer, of the insurer's or nonprofit membership
						corporation's statement of authorized deductions.
(5) Authorization Changes.
Deductions may be changed in amount or terminated in the
						manner provided for filing of authorizations and may be made effective only as
						to retirement allowances payable more than 30 days after notice is received in
						the office of the board.
(6)
					 Refunds.
Any amounts which have been deducted and paid to an
						insurer or nonprofit membership corporation and which are refundable under the
						insurance plan because of death of the retired person, shall be refunded to the
						board for distribution under the Public Employees' Retirement
						Law.