2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 9 - Retirement Systems
CHAPTER 9 - RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR MEMBERS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Section 9-9-80. Allowances shall be payable in monthly installments.
All retirement allowances are payable in monthly installments. Upon the death of a retired member, the retirement allowance for the month the retired member died, if not previously paid, must be paid to the member's designated beneficiary, if the beneficiary is living at the time of the member's death, otherwise to the estate of the member. If the retired member elected a survivor option pursuant to the optional forms of allowances in Section 9-9-70, any allowance payable to a survivor beneficiary commences in the month after the death of the retired member.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 61-278; 1966 (54) 2081; 2001 Act No. 1, Part II, Section 2B4.
Effect of Amendment
The 2001 amendment rewrote provisions relating to payments upon the death of the retired member.
