Tennessee Code 8-3517 – Adjustment of allowances
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 8-3517
- Member: means any person included in the membership of the retirement system, as provided in chapter 35, part 1 of this title. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
- Retirement: means withdrawal from membership with a retirement allowance granted under chapters 34-37 of this title. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
- Retirement allowance: means the sum of the member annuity and the state annuity. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
- Service: means service as a general employee, a teacher, a state police officer, a wildlife officer, a firefighter, a police officer, a state judge, a county judge, an attorney general, a commissioner or a county official which is paid for by an employer, and also includes service for which a former member of the general assembly is entitled to under former §. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Effective July 1, 1969, and each succeeding July 1, the initial service retirement allowance paid on retirement to any member retired prior to July 1, 1969 who, at the date of his retirement, had attained age fifty-five (55) and completed at least twenty (20) years of credited service, shall be increased by one and one-half per cent (11/2%) of such initial allowance for each year that the member has been retired after his attainment of age sixty-five (65), but the aggregate of such annual increments to any retired member’s allowance shall not exceed thirty per cent (30%) of his initial service retirement allowance. The provisions of this section shall not be effective in any case where the application thereof results in a lesser allowance to any retired member than the application of the provisions of § 8-3502.