Texas Government Code Title 8, Chapter 814 - Benefits

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 814.001 - Types Of Benefits
  The types of benefits payable by the retirement system are: (1) service retirement benefits; (2) occupational disability retirement benefits; (3) nonoccupational disability retirement benefits; and...
• Texas Section 814.002 - Benefits From Both Membership Classes
  (a) If a member has service credit in both classes of membership, is eligible to retire from one class, and does not hold a position...
• Texas Section 814.003 - Effective Date Of Retirement
  (a) The effective date of a member's service retirement is the date the member designates at the time the member applies for retirement as provided...
• Texas Section 814.004 - When Benefits Are Payable
  A monthly annuity payable to a retiree or beneficiary is payable to that person through the month in which the person dies. A continuation of...
• Texas Section 814.005 - Waiver Of Benefits
  (a) A person may, on a form prescribed by and filed with the retirement system, waive all or a portion of any benefits from the...
• Texas Section 814.006 - Simultaneous Death Of Member And Beneficiary
  When a member or annuitant and the beneficiary of the member or annuitant have died within a period of less than 120 hours, the member...
• Texas Section 814.007 - Beneficiary Causing Death Of Member Or Annuitant
  (a) Any benefits, funds, or account balances payable on the death of a member or annuitant may not be paid to a person convicted of...
• Texas Section 814.008 - Change Of Beneficiary After Retirement
  (a) A retiree receiving an optional service or disability retirement annuity approved by the board of trustees or described by Section 814.108(c)(1), (c)(2), or (c)(5)...
• Texas Section 814.009 - Deduction From Annuity For State Employee Organization
  (a) A person who receives an annuity under this subchapter may, on a form prescribed by and filed with the retirement system, authorize the retirement...
• Texas Section 814.0095 - Charitable Deduction From Annuity
  (a) Except as provided by Section 814.0096(c), a person who receives an annuity under this subchapter may, on a printed or electronic form filed with...
• Texas Section 814.0096 - Coordination With State Employee Charitable Campaign Policy Committee
  (a) The board of trustees and the state employee charitable campaign policy committee established under Section 659.140 shall coordinate responsibility for the administration of charitable...
• Texas Section 814.010 - Electronic Filing Of Beneficiary Designation
  (a) In this section, "electronic filing" means the filing of data in the form of digital electronic signals transformed by computer and stored on magnetic...
• Texas Section 814.011 - Lump-sum Payments In Lieu Of Annuities
  The retirement system may elect to make a lump-sum payment to a retiree or beneficiary in lieu of annuity payments if the actuarial present value...

SUBCHAPTER B SERVICE RETIREMENT BENEFITS

• Texas Section 814.012 - Disposition Of Unclaimed Beneficiary Benefits
  If, as of the fourth anniversary of the death of a member or annuitant, the retirement system has not paid benefits and a claim for...
• Texas Section 814.101 - Application For Service Retirement Benefits
  (a) A member may apply for a service retirement annuity by filing an application for retirement with the board of trustees. (b) An application for...
• Texas Section 814.102 - Eligibility Of Elected Members For Service Retirement
  Except as provided by rule adopted under Section 813.304(d) or Section 803.202(a)(2), a member who has service credit in the elected class of membership, is...
• Texas Section 814.103 - Service Retirement Benefits For Elected Class Service
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the standard service retirement annuity for service credited in the elected class of membership is an amount equal...
• Texas Section 814.104 - Eligibility Of Member For Service Retirement
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (d) and (e) of this section, Section 814.102, or by rule adopted under Section 813.304(d) or 803.202(a)(2), a member...
• Texas Section 814.105 - Service Retirement Benefits For Employee Class Service
  (a) The standard service retirement annuity for service credited in the employee class of membership is an amount computed as the member's average monthly compensation...
• Texas Section 814.107 - Service Retirement Benefits For Certain Peace Officers
  (a) A member who has at least 20 years of service credit as a law enforcement or custodial officer is eligible to retire regardless of...
• Texas Section 814.108 - Optional Service Retirement Benefits
  (a) Instead of the standard service retirement annuity payable under Section 814.103 or 814.105, the standard combined service retirement annuity payable under Section 814.107, or...
• Texas Section 814.1081 - Change In Annuity Selection
  (a) A person who retired and selected an optional service retirement annuity described by Section 814.108(c)(1), (c)(2), or (c)(5) may change the optional annuity selection...

SUBCHAPTER C DISABILITY RETIREMENT BENEFITS

• Texas Section 814.1082 - Partial Lump-sum Option
  (a) A member who is eligible for an unreduced service retirement annuity may select a standard retirement annuity or an optional retirement annuity described by...
• Texas Section 814.201 - Application For Disability Retirement Benefits
  (a) A member may apply for a disability retirement annuity by: (1) filing an application for retirement with the board of trustees; or (2) having...
• Texas Section 814.202 - Eligibility For Disability Retirement
  (a) A member who was contributing to the retirement system at the time the member became permanently disabled for the further performance of duty is...
• Texas Section 814.203 - Certification Of Disability
  (a) As soon as practicable after an application for disability retirement is filed, the medical board shall evaluate the medical and other pertinent information regarding...
• Texas Section 814.204 - Information About Occupational Disability
  (a) A member who applies for retirement for an occupational disability shall furnish the retirement system all information and other data requested by the retirement...
• Texas Section 814.205 - Disability Retirement Benefits For Elected Class Service
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a disability retirement annuity for service credited in the elected class of membership is an amount computed in...
• Texas Section 814.2055 - Average Monthly Compensation
  For purposes of Sections 814.206 and 814.207, "average monthly compensation" means: (1) a member's average monthly compensation for service in the employee class for the...
• Texas Section 814.206 - Disability Retirement Benefits For Employee Class Service
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) and Section 814.207, a standard disability retirement annuity for service credited in the employee class of membership is...
• Texas Section 814.207 - Disability Retirement Benefits For Certain Peace Officers
  (a) An annuity payable for an occupational disability resulting from a risk to which law enforcement or custodial officers are exposed because of the nature...
• Texas Section 814.208 - Medical Examination Of Disability Retiree
  (a) Once each year during the first five years after a member retires for disability, and once in each three-year period after that, the retirement...
• Texas Section 814.210 - Restoration Of Disability Retiree To Active Service
  (a) If a retiree who is receiving a disability retirement annuity returns to state service or if the retiree is found to be no longer...

SUBCHAPTER D DEATH BENEFIT ANNUITIES

• Texas Section 814.211 - Refund At Annuity Discontinuance
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), if a disability retirement annuity is discontinued, the member is entitled to a lump-sum payment from the retirement...
• Texas Section 814.301 - Selection Of Death Benefit Plan By Member
  (a) A contributing member who has at least 10 years of service credit in the elected or employee class of membership may select a death...
• Texas Section 814.302 - Selection Of Death Benefit Plan By Survivor Of Member
  (a) If a contributing member eligible to select a death benefit plan under Section 814.301 dies without having made a selection, or if a selection...
• Texas Section 814.304 - Annuity For Survivor Of Elected Member
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c), if a member who has at least eight years of service credit in the elected class...

SUBCHAPTER E MEMBER DEATH BENEFITS

• Texas Section 814.305 - Annuity For Survivor Of Law Enforcement Or Custodial Officer
  If a member who has at least 20 years of service credit as a law enforcement or custodial officer dies, the amount of the death...
• Texas Section 814.401 - Member Death Benefits Generally
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), if a member dies under a circumstance described in Subsection (c), a lump-sum death benefit is payable from...
• Texas Section 814.402 - Member Occupational Death Benefits
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), if a member dies and the executive director determines that the death was an occupational death, a lump-sum...

SUBCHAPTER F RETIREE DEATH BENEFITS

• Texas Section 814.403 - Return Of Contributions
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), if a member dies before retirement, the amount in the member's individual account in the employees saving account...
• Texas Section 814.501 - Retiree Death Benefits Generally
  (a) A lump-sum death benefit in the amount of $5,000 is payable if the board of trustees receives proof satisfactory to it of the death,...
• Texas Section 814.503 - Occupational Disability Retiree Death Benefits
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), if a person who receives an occupational disability retirement annuity dies and the executive director determines that the...

SUBCHAPTER G INCREASES IN BENEFITS

• Texas Section 814.505 - Return Of Excess Contributions In Other Circumstances
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), when a person who receives a service or disability retirement annuity dies, a lump-sum death benefit is payable...
• Texas Section 814.601 - Annuity Increase After Death Or Retirement
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (e), on the first day of each fiscal year, the retirement system shall increase the amounts of...
• Texas Section 814.602 - Adjustment To Annuities
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the board of trustees may adopt rules that adjust or modify annuities to the extent necessary to be...
• Texas Section 814.603 - Supplemental Payments
  (a) The retirement system may make a supplemental payment as provided by this section to persons whose annuities are described by Section 814.107, 814.207, 814.305,...
• Texas Section 814.604 - Cost-of-living Adjustment
  (a) The retirement system shall grant a one-time cost-of-living adjustment as provided by Subsections (b) and (c) on a finding by the board of trustees...

Last modified: September 28, 2016