Texas Government Code Title 8, Chapter 864 - Benefits

• Texas Section 864.001 - Eligibility For Service Retirement Annuity
  (a) The state board by rule shall determine the period of qualified service and, if appropriate, the age required for a member to receive a...
• Texas Section 864.002 - Service Retirement Annuity
  (a) A service retirement annuity is payable in monthly installments based on: (1) the governing body's average monthly contribution during the member's term of qualified...
• Texas Section 864.003 - Service Retirement Benefits From More Than One Department
  A member who performs qualified service for more than one participating department may become eligible to receive a service retirement annuity for service from each...
• Texas Section 864.004 - Disability Retirement Benefits
  (a) A member is entitled to disability retirement benefits from the pension system only if a local board determines that the member became disabled during...
• Texas Section 864.005 - Certification And Continuance Of Disability
  (a) A local board shall require a member who is receiving temporary disability benefits to file a disability rating report every three months from a...
• Texas Section 864.006 - Member Service Death Benefits
  (a) The surviving spouse and dependents of a member who dies as a result of performing emergency service duties are entitled to receive in equal...
• Texas Section 864.007 - Member Nonservice Death Benefit
  (a) The state board by rule may provide one or more beneficiaries of a deceased member whose death did not result from the performance of...
• Texas Section 864.009 - Retiree Death Benefit Annuity
  The surviving spouse of a person who dies after retirement is entitled to two-thirds of the monthly annuity the decedent was receiving at the time...
• Texas Section 864.010 - Benefits For Members And Retirees Of Department That Withdraws From Participation Or Ceases To Exist
  (a) The executive director shall continue to administer benefits of the pension system for members and retirees who perform service for a formerly participating department...
• Texas Section 864.011 - First Payment Of Retirement Or Death Benefit Annuity
  The cashing or depositing of the first payment of a service retirement annuity, disability retirement annuity, or death benefit annuity by a person entitled to...
• Texas Section 864.012 - Certain Beneficiaries
  (a) If a member names more than one beneficiary for a lump-sum death benefit, the pension system shall divide the benefit equally among the named...
• Texas Section 864.013 - Cost-of-living Increase
  The state board by rule may provide a cost-of-living increase for any benefit provided by the pension system. If benefits are increased, the state board...
• Texas Section 864.0135 - Optional Annuity Increase Or Supplemental Payments
  (a) The state board by rule may authorize a participating department to: (1) make one or more supplemental payments to retirees and other beneficiaries of...
• Texas Section 864.014 - State Board Authority For Lump-sum Payments
  In lieu of any annuity otherwise payable under this subtitle, the state board by rule may provide for a lump-sum payment if the board determines...
• Texas Section 864.015 - Beneficiary Causing Death Of Member Or Annuitant
  (a) A benefit payable on the death of a member or annuitant may not be paid to a person convicted of causing that death but...
• Texas Section 864.016 - Claim And Appeal Procedure
  (a) A claim for disability retirement benefits or a lump-sum death benefit must be filed with the local board. A claim for service retirement benefits...

Last modified: September 28, 2016