New Jersey Revised Statutes § 18a:66-182 - Evidence Of Insurability

18A:66-182. Evidence of insurability
a. Any person entitled to become a participant in an alternate benefit program shall not be allowed any of the group life and disability insurance benefits if on the date he files an application for participation he is 60 or more years of age or if he makes application for participation in an alternate benefit program beyond the year after he first became eligible for participation, regardless of age, unless the participant furnishes satisfactory evidence of insurability and on the effective date of his participation is actively at work and performing all his regular duties at his customary place of employment.

The effective date of coverage for such benefits shall be the first day of the month which immediately follows the date when such evidence is determined to be satisfactory.

b. Such evidence of insurability will not be required of any person becoming a participant of an alternate benefit program upon transfer from the Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund, the Public Employees' Retirement System, other State-administered retirement system or the Group Annuity Plan, if such system provided benefits of a similar nature and the transferring employee was covered by such benefits at the time of the transfer. If such transferring employee was not covered by such benefits at the time of the transfer, he may be allowed the benefits under the group policy or policies subject to the provisions of subsection a. of this section; provided, however, that any such participant must furnish satisfactory evidence of insurability under the provisions of subsection a. of this section, if he had been unable or failed to give such evidence as a member of the system from which he transferred.

c. Any person who must furnish satisfactory evidence of insurability under the provisions of this section and who ceases to be a participant of an alternate benefit program without such evidence having been given, shall continue to be subject to the same requirement if he subsequently becomes a participant.

L.1969, c. 242, s. 16, eff. July 1, 1969.

18A:66-183 Designation of beneficiary; form; payment.

17.The designation of beneficiary by a participant or retirant shall be made in writing on a form satisfactory to the Division of Pensions and Benefits and filed with the division. The participant or retirant may, from time to time and without the consent of his designee, change the beneficiary by filing a written notice of the change on a satisfactory form. The new nomination will be effective on the date the notice, in proper form, is received and any prior nomination shall thereupon become void.

If more than one beneficiary is nominated and in such nomination the participant or retirant has failed to specify their respective interests, the beneficiaries shall share equally. If any beneficiary predeceases the participant or retirant, the interest of such beneficiary shall terminate and shall be shared equally by such of the beneficiaries as survive the participant or retirant, unless the participant or retirant has made written request to the contrary in his beneficiary nomination.

Any amounts due for which there is no beneficiary at the death of a participant, retirant or beneficiary shall be payable to the estate of such participant, retirant or beneficiary.

Except with regard to the payment of the group life insurance death benefit upon the death of a retirant, a participant may elect, by making written request, that the whole or any part of his group life death benefits be made payable to his beneficiary either as a life annuity or in equal installments over a period of years specified in such election, and may alter such election from time to time during his lifetime by again making such written request. In the event of a change of beneficiary, any previous arrangement by the participant or retirant under this paragraph shall be void. The election set forth in this paragraph shall not apply or be available when the beneficiary is an estate, or a corporation, partnership, association, institution, trustee, or any fiduciary.

If, at the participant's death, an amount of group life death benefit would be payable to the beneficiary in a single sum, any election with regard to such amount which was available to the participant immediately prior to his death in accordance with the preceding paragraph shall then be available to such beneficiary for the benefit of such beneficiary.

With respect to any death benefits payable on the basis of the individual retirement annuity contract or contracts, all settlement options will be made available to the participant, retirant or beneficiary as are allowed by the insurer or insurers.

The provisions of this section shall be construed separately with respect to each of the death benefits for which a beneficiary is designated by the participant or retirant.

L.1969,c.242,s.17; amended 2003, c.75, s.2.


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