Texas Government Code Title 8, Chapter 839 - Benefits

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 839.001 - Types Of Benefits
  The types of benefits payable by the retirement system are: (1) service retirement benefits; (2) disability retirement benefits; and (3) death benefits. Added by Acts...
• Texas Section 839.002 - Application For Retirement
  (a) A member may apply for service or disability retirement by filing an application for retirement with the board of trustees. (b) An application for...
• Texas Section 839.003 - Ineligibility For Benefits
  An annuity that is based on service of a member who is removed from judicial office by impeachment, or otherwise for official misconduct, may not...

SUBCHAPTER B SERVICE RETIREMENT BENEFITS

• Texas Section 839.004 - Disclaimer Of Benefits
  The retirement system shall give effect to a full or partial disclaimer of benefits executed in accordance with Chapter 240, Property Code, unless the benefit...
• Texas Section 839.101 - Eligibility For Service Retirement Annuity
  (a) A member is eligible to retire and receive a service retirement annuity if the member: (1) is at least 65 years old, currently holds...
• Texas Section 839.102 - Service Retirement Annuity
  Sec. 839.102. SERVICE RETIREMENT ANNUITY. Text of subsection as amended by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1033 (H.B. 1114), Sec. 6 (a) Except as...

SUBCHAPTER C DISABILITY RETIREMENT BENEFITS

• Texas Section 839.103 - Optional Service Retirement Annuity
  (a) Instead of a service retirement annuity payable under Section 839.102, a retiring member may elect to receive one of the following optional service retirement...
• Texas Section 839.201 - Eligibility For Disability Retirement Annuity
  (a) A member is eligible, regardless of age, to retire from regular active service for disability and receive a disability retirement annuity if the member...
• Texas Section 839.202 - Disability Reports
  (a) A member who applies for retirement because of physical incapacity shall file with the retirement system and the chief justice of the supreme court...

SUBCHAPTER D DEATH BENEFITS

• Texas Section 839.203 - Disability Retirement Annuity
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or (c), a disability retirement annuity is an amount computed as provided by Section 839.102. (b) The amount...
• Texas Section 839.301 - Selection Of Death Benefit Plan By Member
  (a) An eligible member may select a death benefit plan for the payment of a death benefit annuity, to be paid if the member dies...
• Texas Section 839.302 - Selection Of Death Benefit Plan By Survivor Of Member
  If a member eligible to select a death benefit plan under Section 839.301 dies without having made a selection or if a plan selected cannot...
• Texas Section 839.303 - Member Death Benefits Generally
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), if a contributing member dies, a lump-sum death benefit is payable from the retirement system in an amount...
• Texas Section 839.304 - Return Of Contributions
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), if a member dies before retirement, the amount of the member's accumulated contributions is payable as a lump-sum...
• Texas Section 839.305 - Return Of Excess Contributions
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), if a person dies after retirement, a lump-sum death benefit is payable in an amount, if any, by...

SUBCHAPTER E INCREASES IN BENEFITS

• Texas Section 839.306 - 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 839.401 - 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...

Last modified: September 28, 2016