California Government Code ARTICLE 5 - Postretirement Death Benefits

• Section 21620.
  (a) Upon the death of any person, after retirement and while receiving a retirement allowance from this system, there shall be paid to his or her...
• Section 21621.
  If the beneficiary of a member retired under this system is entitled to receive a comparable lump-sum death benefit from any other retirement system supported,...
• Section 21622.
  (a) In lieu of benefits provided by Section 21620, upon the death of any person, after retirement and while receiving a retirement allowance from this system,...
• Section 21623.
  (a) In lieu of benefits provided by Section 21620 or 21622, upon the death of any retired state or school member, after retirement and while receiving...
• Section 21623.5.
  (a) In lieu of benefits provided by Sections 21620 and 21622 upon the death of any local member, after retirement and while receiving a retirement allowance...
• Section 21623.6.
  (a) In lieu of benefits provided by Sections 21620, 21622, and 21623, upon the death of any school member, after retirement and while receiving a retirement...
• Section 21624.
  Upon the death of a patrol, state peace officer/firefighter, or state safety member whose retirement for service or disability is effective on or after April...
• Section 21625.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, upon the member’s election to be subject to Section 21460 or 21478, the benefits provided by Section 21624,...
• Section 21626.
  “Member” for purposes of Section 21624 also includes those local miscellaneous members and local safety members who on March 31, 1973 were subject to former...
• Section 21626.5.
  (a) For purposes of Section 21624, 21626, 21627, 21629, or 21630, a surviving domestic partner shall be treated in the same manner as a surviving spouse...
• Section 21627.
  (a) An eligible survivor of a state safety member who retired prior to April 1, 1973, and died prior to September 28, 1987, shall receive a...
• Section 21628.
  The allowance provided by Section 21624 shall be paid with respect to a local miscellaneous or local safety member whose retirement was effective prior to...
• Section 21629.
  Upon the death, after the effective date of retirement, of a state miscellaneous member none of whose service rendered in state employment has been included...
• Section 21630.
  Upon death after the effective date of retirement of a state miscellaneous member some of whose service rendered in state employment has been included in...
• Section 21631.
  (a) The monthly allowance provided by Sections 21629 and 21630 shall be paid on account of retired school members who did not at retirement elect the...
• Section 21632.
  (a) The monthly allowances provided by Sections 21629 and 21630 shall be paid on account of retired state miscellaneous members who did not at retirement elect...
• Section 21633.
  The monthly allowance provided by Section 21624 shall be paid on account of patrol and state safety members retired for nonindustrial disability with effective dates...
• Section 21634.
  Any provision of this article or Article 4 (commencing with Section 21350) of Chapter 13 imposing as a condition for payment of an allowance to...
• Section 21635.
  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this part, survivor continuance allowances payable to surviving spouses upon death after retirement of a member do not cease upon...
• Section 21635.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, on and after the effective date of this section, the remarriage of the surviving spouse of a deceased...

Last modified: October 22, 2018