Terms Used In South Carolina Code 9-1-820

  • Board: means the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority which shall act under the provisions of this chapter through its Division of Retirement Systems. See South Carolina Code 9-1-10
  • Earnable compensation: means the full rate of the compensation that would be payable to a member if the member worked the member's full normal working time; when compensation includes maintenance, fees, and other things of value the board shall fix the value of that part of the compensation not paid in money directly by the employer. See South Carolina Code 9-1-10
  • Member: means a teacher or employee included in the membership of the system as provided in Article 5 of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 9-1-10
  • Prior service: means service rendered as a teacher or employee before July 1, 1945, for which credit is allowable under Article 7 of this chapter. See South Carolina Code 9-1-10
  • system: means the South Carolina Retirement System established under § 9-1-20. See South Carolina Code 9-1-10
Subject to the restrictions herein contained and to such other rules and regulations as the Board may adopt, the Board verified or, if such verifications have not been completed, shall verify, as soon as practicable after the filing of such statements under § 9-1-810, the service therein claimed. In lieu of a determination of the actual compensation of a member that was received during such period of prior service the Board may use for the purpose of the System the compensation rates which, if they had progressed with the rates of salary increase shown in the tables as prescribed in 9-1-250, would have resulted in the same average earnable compensation of the member for five years immediately preceding July 1, 1945 as the records show the member actually received.