Terms Used In Iowa Code 97B.58

  • Employer: means the state of Iowa, the counties, municipalities, agencies, public school districts, all political subdivisions, and all of their departments and instrumentalities, including area agencies on aging, other than those employing persons as specified in subsection 8, paragraph "b" subparagraph (7), and joint planning commissions created under chapter 28E or 28I. See Iowa Code 97B.1A
  • 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
  • System: means the Iowa public employees' retirement system. See Iowa Code 97B.1
 To enable the system to administer this chapter and perform its functions, the employer shall, upon the request of and in the manner provided by the system, provide accurate, complete, and timely information to the system of all matters relating to the pay of all members, date of birth, their retirement, death, or other cause for termination of employment, and other pertinent facts the system may require in the manner provided by the system. The system shall not be liable to any member, retiree, or beneficiary for any monetary or other relief due to the failure of the employer to comply with this section.