Terms Used In Iowa Code 97B.53A

  • Member: means an employee or a former employee who maintains the employee's or former employee's accumulated contributions in the retirement system. See Iowa Code 97B.1A
  • Retirement: means that period of time beginning when a member who has filed an approved application for a retirement allowance has survived into at least the first day of the member's first month of entitlement and ending when the member dies. See Iowa Code 97B.1A
  • supplemental account: means the account established for each active member under section 97B. See Iowa Code 97B.1A
  • System: means the Iowa public employees' retirement system. See Iowa Code 97B.1
 Upon a member‘s termination of covered employment prior to the member’s retirement, the system shall send the member by first class mail, to the member’s last known mailing address, a notice setting forth the balance and status of the member’s account and supplemental account and an explanation of the courses of action available to the member under this chapter.