2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 5-170. Effect of workers\' compensation and disability payments.
Sec. 5-170. Effect of workers' compensation and disability payments. (a) Except as provided in subsection (i) of section 5-169, a member shall not be entitled to
receive or retain retirement income payments made for any period for which the member
has received or receives disability payments and necessary medical and hospital expenses because of injury incurred or disease contracted in the performance of certain
duties, as provided in section 5-142. Unless the Retirement Commission has waived the
overpayment in accordance with section 5-156c, in any case in which a member has
received retirement income payments in excess of his entitlement under this subsection,
the Comptroller shall act to recover such overpayments by any appropriate means, including (1) withholding such sums from future retirement income payments in accordance with regulations to be adopted by the Retirement Commission in accordance with
the provisions of chapter 54, and (2) petitioning the workers' compensation commissioner having jurisdiction of the member's claim under section 5-142 for an order reducing the member's award pursuant to said section by the amount of such overpayment. The
commissioner may enter such order notwithstanding the provisions of section 31-320.
(c) Retirement income payments shall not be reduced: (1) For a member receiving a specific indemnity award under section 31-307 or 31-308; (2) for a member who received a judgment for personal injuries and pain and suffering under the provisions of section 31-293, provided he has reimbursed the state in full for all sums expended by it under chapter 568.
(d) This section applies to claims for workers' compensation and disability retirement from injuries sustained on and after January 1, 1947.
(1949 Rev., S. 385; 1951, S. 154d, 155d; 1958 Rev., S. 5-107; 1961, P.A. 234, S. 19; P.A. 79-376, S. 7; P.A. 83-533, S. 48, 54; P.A. 87-287, S. 1, 2.)
History: 1961 act "restated" state employees retirement act "in a simpler, clearer and more orderly form"; P.A. 79-376 replaced "workmen's compensation" in Subsecs. (b) and (d) with "workers' compensation"; P.A. 83-533 amended section to provide for reduction or suspension of benefits in accordance with Sec. 5-169; P.A. 87-287 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to require the comptroller to recover overpayments by any appropriate means unless the overpayment has been waived by the retirement commission.
Former statute cited. 144 C. 322.
Former statute cited. 22 CS 97.
