24 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 83 - Membership, Contributions And Benefits

• Chapter Notes

Subchapter A.  General Provisions

• Section 8301 - Mandatory And Optional Membership
  (a) Mandatory membership.--Membership in the system shall be mandatory as of the effective date of employment for all school employees except the following: (1)...
• Section 8302 - Credited School Service
  (a) Computation of credited service.--In computing credited school service of a member for the determination of benefits, a full-time salaried school employee shall receive...
• Section 8303 - Eligibility Points For Retention And Reinstatement Of Service Credits
  (a) Accrued credited service.--Eligibility points shall be computed in accordance with section 8306 (relating to eligibility points) with respect to all credited service accrued...
• Section 8303.1 - Waiver Of Adjustments
  (a) Allowance.--Upon appeal by an affected member, beneficiary or survivor annuitant, the board may waive an adjustment or any portion of an adjustment made...
• Section 8304 - Creditable Nonschool Service
  (a) Eligibility.--An active member or a multiple service member who is an active member of the State Employees' Retirement System shall be eligible to...
• Section 8305 - Classes Of Service
  (a) Class T-C membership.--A school employee who is a member of Class T-C on the effective date of this part or who becomes a...
• Section 8305.1 - Election To Become A Class T-d Member
  (a) General rule.--A person who is: (1) a member of the system; or (2) a multiple service member who is a State employee and...
• Section 8305.2 - Election To Become A Class T-f Member
  (a) General rule.--A person who first becomes a school employee and an active member, or a person who first becomes a multiple service member...
• Section 8306 - Eligibility Points
  (a) General rule.--An active member of the system shall accrue one eligibility point for each year of credited service as a member of the...
• Section 8307 - Eligibility For Annuities
  (a) Superannuation annuity.--An active or an inactive member who attains superannuation age shall be entitled to receive a superannuation annuity upon termination of service...
• Section 8308 - Eligibility For Vesting
  Any Class T-C or Class T-D member who terminates school service with five or more eligibility points shall be entitled to vest his retirement...
• Section 8309 - Eligibility For Death Benefits
  In the event of the death of a member who is eligible for an annuity in accordance with section 8307(a) or (b) (relating to...
• Section 8310 - Eligibility For Refunds
  Upon termination of service any active member, regardless of eligibility for benefits, may elect to receive his accumulated deductions in lieu of any benefit...
• Section 8311 - Eligibility For Early Retirement
  Notwithstanding any provisions of this title to the contrary, for the period only of June 1, 1982 through August 31, 1982, the following retirement...
• Section 8312 - Eligibility For Special Early Retirement
  Notwithstanding any provisions of this title to the contrary, for the period only of July 1, 1985, to July 1, 1997, the following special...
• Section 8313 - Eligibility For Limited Early Retirement
  Notwithstanding any provisions of this title to the contrary, the following early retirement provisions shall be applicable to eligible members: (1) Any member who,...

Subchapter B.  Contributions

• Section 8321 - Regular Member Contributions For Current Service
  (a) General.--Regular member contributions shall be made to the fund on behalf of each active member for current service except for any period of...
• Section 8322 - Joint Coverage Member Contributions
  The regular member contributions made to the fund as and to the extent required by section 8321 (relating to regular member contributions for current...
• Section 8322.1 - Pickup Contributions
  (a) Treatment for purposes of IRC § 414(h).--All contributions required to be made under sections 8321 (relating to regular member contributions for current service)...
• Section 8323 - Member Contributions For Creditable School Service
  (a) Previous school service, sabbatical leave and full coverage.--The contributions to be paid by an active member or an eligible State employee for credit...
• Section 8324 - Contributions For Purchase Of Credit For Creditable Nonschool Service And Noncreditable School Service
  § 8324. Contributions for purchase of credit for creditable nonschool service and noncreditable school service. (a) Source of contributions.--The total contributions to purchase credit...
• Section 8325 - Incomplete Payments
  In the event that a member terminates school service or a multiple service member who is an active member of the State Employees' Retirement...
• Section 8325.1 - Annual Compensation Limit Under Irc § 401(a)(17)
  § 8325.1. Annual compensation limit under IRC § 401(a)(17). (a) General rule.--In addition to other applicable limitations set forth in this part, and notwithstanding...
• Section 8326 - Contributions By The Commonwealth
  (a) Contributions on behalf of active members.--The Commonwealth shall make contributions into the fund on behalf of all active members, including members on activated...
• Section 8327 - Payments By Employers
  (a) General rule.--Each employer, including the Commonwealth as employer of employees of the Department of Education, State-owned colleges and universities, Thaddeus Stevens College of...
• Section 8328 - Actuarial Cost Method
  (a) Employer contribution rate.--The amount of the total employer contributions shall be computed by the actuary as a percentage of the total compensation of...
• Section 8329 - Payments On Account Of Social Security Deductions From Appropriations
  § 8329. Payments on account of social security deductions from appropriations. (a) Payments by Commonwealth.--Where the Secretary of Education enters into an agreement with...
• Section 8330 - Appropriations By The Commonwealth
  (a) Annual submission of budget.--The board shall prepare and through the Governor submit annually to the General Assembly an itemized budget consisting of the...

Subchapter C.  Benefits

• Section 8341 - Return Of Accumulated Deductions
  Any member upon termination of service may, in lieu of all benefits payable under this chapter to which he may be entitled, elect to...
• Section 8342 - Maximum Single Life Annuity
  (a) General rule.--Upon termination of service, any full coverage member who is eligible to receive an annuity pursuant to the provisions of section 8307(a)...
• Section 8343 - Reduction Of Annuities On Account Of Social Security Old-age Insurance Benefits
  § 8343. Reduction of annuities on account of social security old-age insurance benefits. (a) General rule.--A joint coverage member who is eligible to receive...
• Section 8344 - Disability Annuities
  (a) Amount of annuity.--A member who has made application for a disability annuity as provided in section 8507(k) (relating to rights and duties of...
• Section 8345 - Member's Options
  (a) General rule.--Any Class T-C or Class T-D member who is a vestee with five or more eligibility points, any Class T-E or Class...
• Section 8346 - Termination Of Annuities
  (a) General rule.--If an annuitant returns to school service or enters or has entered State service and elects multiple service membership, any annuity payable...
• Section 8347 - Death Benefits
  (a) Members eligible for annuities.--Any member or former member on USERRA leave, other than an annuitant, who dies and was eligible for an annuity...
• Section 8348 - Supplemental Annuities
  (a) General rule.--Every annuitant who is in receipt of a superannuation, withdrawal or disability annuity, shall continue to receive such annuity and beginning July...
• Section 8348.1 - Additional Supplemental Annuities
  (a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after July 1, 1984, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive an additional monthly...
• Section 8348.2 - Further Additional Supplemental Annuities
  (a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after January 1, 1989, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive a further additional...
• Section 8348.3 - Supplemental Annuities Commencing 1994
  (a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after July 1, 1994, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive a further additional...
• Section 8348.4 - Special Supplemental Postretirement Adjustment
  (a) Eligibility.--An annuitant who: (1) retired after October 1, 1975, and before January 1, 1985; (2) has military service as set forth in section...
• Section 8348.5 - Supplemental Annuities Commencing 1998
  (a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after July 1, 1998, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive a further additional...
• Section 8348.6 - Supplemental Annuities Commencing 2002
  (a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after July 1, 2002, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive an additional monthly...
• Section 8348.7 - Supplemental Annuities Commencing 2003
  (a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after July 1, 2003, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive an additional monthly...
• Section 8349 - Payment Of Benefits
  (a) Annuities.--Any annuity granted under the provisions of this part shall be paid in equal monthly installments. (b) Death benefits.--If the amount of a...

Last modified: October 8, 2016