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2024 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 5 - State Employees
Chapter 66* - State Employees Retirement Act
*1961 Public act number 234 restated employees retirement act, making no substantive changes therein, and will not be referred to in historical notes to the sections.
See chapter 11a re pension revocation or reduction for public officials and state or municipal employees.
Former chapter cited. 136 C. 179. Act confers no contractual rights in the statutory pension plan on state employees; creation of contract rights in favor of state employees discussed. 195 C. 405. Cited. 218 C. 729; 234 C. 424. The State Employees Retirement Act does not specify the date on which an employee's disability retirement benefits will begin and it is appropriate to give great deference to the commission's reasonable interpretation that such benefits become payable on the first date of the month after the application is received. 342 C. 67.
Cited. 1 CA 454.
Status under act does not depend on the method of appointment. 10 CS 78; Id., 346.
PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Section 5-152. - Short title: State Employees Retirement Act.
- Section 5-153. - Continuance from prior law.
- Section 5-154. - Definitions.
- Section 5-155. - Retirement Commission.
- Section 5-155a. - Connecticut State Employees Retirement Commission. Membership. Powers and duties. Alternate retirement program. Regulations. Report by Treasurer. Claims process.
- Section 5-155b. - Regulations re claims and contested cases.
- Section 5-156. - Retirement fund. Contribution of participants in alternate retirement program.
- Section 5-156a. - Funding of retirement system on actuarial reserve basis.
- Section 5-156b. - Employment of actuaries.
- Section 5-156c. - Erroneous payments; adjustment; waiver of repayment; regulations.
- Section 5-156d. - Mailing date for benefit checks.
- Section 5-156e. - Lump sum payment after audit to include interest.
- Section 5-156f. - Study re funding of past service liability. Additional contributions.
- Section 5-156g. - Electronic direct deposit of pension payments.
- Section 5-156h. - Limitation on amount of retirement income for certain members not subject to terms of collective bargaining agreement.
- Section 5-157. - Retirement system–parts A and B.
- Section 5-158. - Social Security–special coverage rules.
- Section 5-158a. - Part A and B members may elect to participate in part A and Social Security.
- Section 5-158b. - Payment by part B member for such participation after transfer from part A.
- Section 5-158c. - Payment by part B member, without prior part A membership, for such participation.
- Section 5-158d. - Payment by part A member for such participation.
- Section 5-158e. - Transfer from part A to part B.
- Section 5-158f. - Election by new employees. Special option to nonmembers. Retirement system provisions not applicable to employees in federally funded positions.
- Section 5-158g. - Effect on options.
- Section 5-158h. - Transfers between parts A and B.
- Section 5-159. - Social Security contributions.
- Section 5-159a. - Social Security Agreement retroactive.
- Section 5-159b. - Election of refunds by state employees in federally funded jobs.
- Section 5-160. - Eligibility.
- Section 5-161. - Retirement contributions.
- Section 5-162. - Retirement date and retirement income.
- Section 5-162a. - Biennial adjustment of salary of retired employees.
- Section 5-162b. - Cost of living adjustment for employees retired on or before June 30, 1975.
- Section 5-162c. - Annual adjustments in allowances to retired employees.
- Section 5-162d. - Tier I cost of living allowance for members retiring on or after July 1, 1975.
- Section 5-162e. - Cost of living adjustment.
- Section 5-162f. - Minimum monthly retirement income.
- Section 5-162g. - Part-time employees; eligibility; computation of benefits.
- Section 5-162h. - Cost of living adjustment.
- Section 5-163. - Early retirement.
- Section 5-163a. - Eligibility for retirement prior to June 30, 1980. Retirement income.
- Section 5-163b. - Supplemental retirement benefit for certain members eligible to retire on or before July 1, 1989.
- Section 5-164. - Continuance in office or position after retirement date.
- Section 5-164a. - Retirement credit of retired employees who are reemployed or elected to serve in the General Assembly.
- Section 5-165. - Optional forms of retirement income.
- Section 5-165a. - Benefit payable if member dies prior to retirement.
- Section 5-165b. - Options elected prior to July 1, 1969.
- Section 5-166. - Leaving state service before becoming eligible for retirement.
- Section 5-166a. - Election by judges.
- Section 5-167. - Contributions for prior years.
- Section 5-168. - Death benefit–beneficiaries.
- Section 5-168a. - Death benefit where member elected option.
- Section 5-169. - Disability retirement. Calculation. Board. Limitation of benefits. Offset and maximum benefit limitation. Cost of living adjustment. Alternative disability compensation. Board petition.
- Section 5-170. - Effect of workers' compensation and disability payments.
- Section 5-171. - Assignments prohibited.
- Section 5-172. - Minor and incompetent payees.
- Section 5-172a. - Health service insurance coverage for certain retired state employees.
- Section 5-173. - Hazardous duty service.
- Section 5-174. - Educational leave.
- Section 5-174a. - Sick leave.
- Section 5-175. - State-aided institutions.
- Section 5-175a. - Operators of vending stands in public buildings. Credit for prior years of service.
- Section 5-175b. - Time limit for purchase of certain kinds of service credit.
- Section 5-176. - Prior public school service.
- Section 5-177. - Credit for out-of-state or foreign service to educational institutions.
- Section 5-177a. - Credit for university employees with prior service as hospital pharmacist.
- Section 5-178. - Probation officers.
- Section 5-179. - Services paid for by federal grant.
- Section 5-180. - Military service.
- Section 5-181. - Credit for prior state service. Credit for service in the General Assembly.
- Section 5-181a. - Credit for service with United States federal government.
- Section 5-181b. - Continuation of membership during service as elected official.
- Section 5-182. - Miscellaneous service credits.
- Section 5-183. - Transferred county employees.
- Section 5-184. - Credit for service with county or county agricultural extension office.
- Section 5-185. - County trust funds transferred to retirement fund.
- Section 5-186. - Transfer from Municipal Retirement Fund.
- Section 5-187. - Sheriffs and chief deputies.
- Section 5-187a. - Credit for former service as deputy sheriff.
- Section 5-187b. - Special deputy sheriffs appointed before July 1, 1999: Membership and credit.
- Section 5-187c. - Special deputy sheriffs appointed on or after July 1, 1999, and judicial marshals employed on or after December 1, 2000: Membership and credit.
- Section 5-188. - Retirement salary of detectives.
- Section 5-189. - Credit to court employees for prior municipal service.
- Section 5-190. - Court reporters to receive credit for service as municipal court stenographers.
- Section 5-190a. - Retirement credit for employees of the Criminal Justice Division and public defenders.
- Section 5-190b. - Participation in retirement systems by certain teachers at E. O. Smith School; certain service treated as continuous employment by board of education.
- Section 5-191. - Credit for service to other states.
- Section 5-191a. - Reimbursement of certain retired employees for moneys deducted from retirement allowance.
- Section 5-192. - Credit for transferred McCook Hospital employees.
- Section 5-192a. - Credit for state college bookstore employees.
- Section 5-192b. - Credit for previous membership in a municipal retirement system.
- Section 5-192c. - Transfer from teachers' retirement system to state employees retirement system.
- Section 5-192d. - Administration of retirement funds for teachers at E. O. Smith School.
- Section 5-192e. - Application.
- Section 5-192f. - Definitions.
- Section 5-192g. - Eligibility and membership.
- Section 5-192h. - Election by judges.
- Section 5-192i. - Vesting service.
- Section 5-192j. - Credited service.
- Section 5-192k. - Part-time employees; eligibility; computation of benefits.
- Section 5-192l. - Normal retirement.
- Section 5-192m. - Early retirement.
- Section 5-192n. - Hazardous duty retirement.
- Section 5-192o. - Deferred vested retirement.
- Section 5-192p. - Disability retirement.
- Section 5-192q. - Optional forms of retirement income.
- Section 5-192r. - Spouse's allowance; preretirement death benefits.
- Section 5-192s. - Tier II cost of living adjustment.
- Section 5-192t. - Survivorship benefits.
- Section 5-192u. - Tier II member contributions not required.
- Section 5-192v. - Retirement credit of reemployed retired members.
- Section 5-192w. - Assignment prohibited.
- Section 5-192x. - Minor and incompetent payees.
- Section 5-192y to 5-192mm. - Reserved for future use.
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