Kansas Statutes 74-4950f. Postretirement benefit increase for payments after June 30, 1993, for certain retirants; local school annuitant increases paid by school district
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 74-4950f
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Local school annuitant: means (1) any person who is an annuitant with 10 or more years of service who is receiving an annuity from a school district maintaining a separate retirement system and whose annuity is not included, in whole or in part, in payments made to such school district under Kan. See Kansas Statutes 74-49,109
- member: means any member of the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system who is eligible to participate in the DROP and who elects to participate in the DROP as provided in this act;
(7) "monthly DROP accrual" means the amount equal to the monthly retirement benefit that would have been payable to the member had the member terminated service and retired on the day the member elected; and
(8) "system" means the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system. See Kansas Statutes 74-4986l
- Retirant: means (1) any person who is a member of a retirement system and who has retired prior to July 2, 1987, (2) any person who is a special member of a retirement system and who has retired prior to July 2, 1987, (3) any person who is a joint annuitant or beneficiary of any member described in clause (1) or of any special member described in clause (2), (4) any local school annuitant, and (5) any insured disability benefit recipient. See Kansas Statutes 74-49,109
- Retirement system: means the Kansas public employees retirement system, the Kansas police and firemen's retirement system, the state school retirement system, the Kansas highway patrol pension fund, the Kansas bureau of investigation pension fund, the Kansas retirement fund for judges, or the Kansas retirement fund for official court reporters. See Kansas Statutes 74-49,109
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- system: means the Kansas public employees retirement system. See Kansas Statutes 74-49,302
(a) (1) Effective July 1, 1993, the retirement benefit, pension or annuity payments accruing after June 30, 1993, to each retirant and each local school annuitant with less than 15 years of service credit from the retirant’s retirement system or the local school annuitant’s separate retirement system maintained by a local school district, shall be increased by an amount equal to $10 or 5% of the retirement benefit, pension or annuity payment in effect on June 30, 1993, from the retirant’s retirement system or the local school annuitant’s separate retirement system maintained by a local school district, whichever is greater, and shall be paid by such retirement system to the retirant or by such separate retirement system maintained by a local school district to the local school annuitant during such period. All such increased payments to local school annuitants shall be paid by the local school district maintaining a separate retirement system and such payments shall be made at no additional cost to any employer other than the local school district.
(2) Effective July 1, 1993, the retirement benefit, pension or annuity payments accruing after June 30, 1993, to each retirant and each local school annuitant with 15 or more years of service credit from the retirant’s retirement system or the local school annuitant’s separate retirement system maintained by a local school district, shall be increased by an amount equal to $50 or 15% of the retirement benefit, pension or annuity payment in effect on June 30, 1993 such increase not to exceed $200, from the retirant’s retirement system or the local school annuitant’s separate retirement system maintained by a local school district, whichever is greater, and shall be paid by such retirement system to the retirant or by such separate retirement system maintained by a local school district to the local school annuitant during such period. All such increased payments to local school annuitants shall be paid by the local school district maintaining a separate retirement system and such payments shall be made at no additional cost to any employer other than the local school district.
(b) As used in this section:
(1) “Retirant” means (A) any person who is a member or special member of a retirement system, who retired prior to July 1, 1993, (B) any person who is a joint annuitant or beneficiary of any member or special member described in clause (A).
(2) “Retirement system” means the Kansas public employees retirement system, the Kansas police and firemen’s retirement system, the state school retirement system and the retirement system for judges.
(3) “Local school annuitant” means (A) any person who is an annuitant with 10 or more years of service, who is receiving an annuity from a school district maintaining a separate retirement system, whose annuity is not included, in whole or in part, in payments made to such school district under Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 72-5512b and amendments thereto and who is not a member of group I or of group II as defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 72-5518 and amendments thereto, and (B) any person who is receiving an annuity from a school district maintaining a separate retirement system which is receiving an aggregate payment from the Kansas public employees retirement system under Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 72-5512b and amendments thereto and who retired prior to September 1, 1981.