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2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes
Chapter 78 - County employees' civil service and retirement
78.5526 Employment and medical review after disability retirement -- Filing of review forms -- Duty of Authority to assist in obtaining records.

Universal Citation: KY Rev Stat § 78.5526 (2021)
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78.5526 Employment and medical review after disability retirement -- Filing of review forms -- Duty of Authority to assist in obtaining records. (1) (2) (3) Once each year following the retirement of a person on a disability retirement allowance, or less frequently as determined by the Authority's medical examiner but not less than once every five (5) years, the system may require the person, prior to his or her normal retirement date, to undergo an employment and medical staff review and, if necessary, be required to file at the retirement office on the review form prescribed by the Authority current employment information and current medical information for the bodily injury, mental illness, or disease for which he or she receives a disability retirement allowance. The person shall have one hundred eighty (180) days from the day the Authority mailed the review form to the person's last address on file in the retirement office to file at the retirement office the review form and the current employment and medical information. The person shall certify to the Authority that the review form, including current employment and medical information, is ready to be evaluated by the medical examiner in accordance with KRS 78.5528. If, after good faith efforts, the person informs the Authority that he or she has been unable to obtain the employment or medical information, the Authority shall assist the person in obtaining the records and may use the powers granted pursuant to KRS 61.685(1) to obtain the records. If the person fails or refuses to file at the retirement office the review form, including the current employment and medical information, his or her retirement allowance shall be discontinued or reduced on the first day of the month following the expiration of the one hundred eighty (180) days from the day the Authority mailed the review form to the person's last address on file in the retirement office. The Authority shall send notice of the discontinuance or reduction of the disability retirement allowance by United States first-class mail to the person's last address on file in the retirement office. If the person's benefits are discontinued or reduced under this section, his or her rights to further disability retirement allowances shall cease, except as provided by KRS 78.5528. Effective:April 1, 2021 History: Created 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 102, sec. 9, effective April 1, 2021.
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