Michigan Laws 38.1640c – Supplemental benefit; conditions
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Terms Used In Michigan Laws 38.1640c
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- 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
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
(1) Beginning October 1, 2015, and subject to an annual appropriation, if the annual retirement allowance payable to a retirant or a retirement allowance beneficiary of a deceased retirant or member is less than $16,000.00 in the preceding fiscal year, the retirement system shall pay the retirant or retirement allowance beneficiary a supplemental benefit in the amount sufficient to produce an annual retirement allowance of $16,000.00 for the current fiscal year. This section only applies to a retirant or retirement allowance beneficiary of a deceased retirant or member who meets both of the following requirements:
(a) The retirant’s or deceased retirant’s effective date of retirement was before October 1, 1986 or the retirement allowance effective date for the retirement allowance beneficiary of the deceased member was before October 1, 1986.
(b) The retirant or retirement allowance beneficiary was in payment status on the rolls of the retirement system on or before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section.
(2) The payment of the supplemental benefit provided in subsection (1) must be made on a schedule and in a manner determined by the office of retirement services.