Kansas Statutes 74-4950i. Postretirement benefit increase for payment after June 30, 1998, for certain retirants
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 74-4950i
- 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) The retirement benefit, pension or annuity payments accruing after June 30, 1998, to each retirant and each local school annuitant shall be increased by an amount equal to 3.0% of the retirement benefit, pension or annuity payment in effect on July 1, 1998, from the retirant’s retirement system and shall be paid by such retirement system to the retirant and the local school annuitant during such period.
(b) As used in this section:
(1) “Retirant” means (A) any person who is a member of a retirement system and who retired prior to July 1, 1997, (B) any person who is a special member of a retirement system and who retired prior to July 1, 1997, (C) any person who is a joint annuitant or beneficiary of any member described in clause (A) or any special member described in clause (B) and (D) any long-term disability benefit recipient.
(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, 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 a 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 and who retired prior to September 1, 1981.
(4) “Long-term disability recipient” means any person receiving a long-term disability benefit under Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 74-4927 and amendments thereto prior to July 1, 1997.