2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 161 - School employees -- teachers' retirement and tenure
161.635 Supplemental component for persons who became nonuniversity members on or after January 1, 2022 -- Benefit -- Contributions -- Election upon termination of employment and upon retirement -- Plans authorized under Internal Revenue Code. (Effective January 1, 2022).
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161.635 Supplemental component for persons who became nonuniversity
members on or after January 1, 2022 -- Benefit -- Contributions -- Election
upon termination of employment and upon retirement -- Plans authorized
under Internal Revenue Code. (Effective January 1, 2022)
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An individual who becomes a nonuniversity member of the Teachers'
Retirement System on or after January 1, 2022, shall receive the retirement
benefits provided by this section in addition to the retirement benefits provided
under KRS 161.620. The retirement benefits provided by this section shall be
known as the supplemental benefit component.
The supplemental benefit component shall provide a benefit based upon a
member's accumulated account balance which shall include:
(a) Mandatory contributions made by the member as provided by KRS
161.540(1)(c)2.;
(b) Voluntary contributions made by the member, which may include
lump-sum payments;
(c) Mandatory contributions made by the employer as provided by KRS
161.550(1)(d)2.;
(d) Voluntary employer contributions; and
(e) Regular interest, which shall be credited to the member's account
annually on June 30 of each fiscal year, by multiplying the member's
accumulated account balance in the supplemental benefit component on
June 30 of the preceding fiscal year by the regular interest rate.
(a) Member contributions and employer contributions as provided by
subsection (2)(a) to (d) of this section shall be credited to the member's
account at least monthly as contributions are reported and posted to the
system in accordance with KRS 161.560.
(b) No employer contributions or interest shall be provided to a member who
has taken a refund of his or her accumulated account balance as
provided by KRS 161.470 or who has retired and annuitized his or her
accumulated account balance as authorized by this section.
(a) Upon termination of employment, a member who has less than five (5)
years of service credited under KRS 161.500, who elects to take a refund
of his or her accumulated account balance as provided by KRS 161.470,
shall forfeit the accumulated employer contribution, and shall only receive
a refund of his or her accumulated contributions.
(b) Upon termination of employment, a member who has five (5) or more
years of service credited under KRS 161.500, who elects to take a refund
of his or her accumulated account balance as provided by KRS 161.470,
shall receive a full refund of his or her accumulated account balance.
A nonuniversity member eligible to retire under KRS 161.600(2) may upon
retirement, in addition to the other benefits provided by KRS 161.620, elect to:
(a) Have his or her accumulated account balance in the supplemental benefit
component annuitized into a lifetime monthly retirement allowance by the
system in accordance with the actuarial assumptions and actuarial
methods adopted by the board for the supplemental benefit component
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and in effect on the member's retirement date;
(b) Receive the actuarial equivalent of his or her retirement allowance
calculated under paragraph (a) of this subsection payable under one (1)
of the options established by the board pursuant to KRS 161.630;
(c) Take a distribution of the accumulated account balance in the
supplemental benefit component over a period certain as authorized by
the board; or
(d) Take a full or partial refund of his or her accumulated account balance as
provided by KRS 161.470.
A member participating in the supplemental benefit component shall not be
required to take a distribution or annuitize his or her accumulated account
balance in the supplemental benefit component when he or she begins drawing
a retirement allowance from the foundational benefit component and may
instead choose to begin drawing a distribution or annuitize his or her
accumulated account balance in the supplemental benefit component at any
date following his or her retirement date from the foundational benefit
component.
This section only applies to individuals who become nonuniversity members of
the Teachers' Retirement System on or after January 1, 2022.
The board of trustees shall have the authority to utilize or establish any plan or
plans authorized under the Internal Revenue Code to provide the benefits set
forth in this section.
Effective:January 1, 2022
History: Created 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 157, sec. 3, effective January 1, 2022.
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