Title GOV — California Gov. Code

Upon the industrial disability retirement of a state miscellaneous member subject to Section 21151, the disability allowance shall be 50 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchased with his or her accumulated additional contributions, if any, or, if qualifi…

Upon the industrial disability retirement of a state miscellaneous member within Section 21151, or a state industrial member whose service is subject to Section 21076 or 21076.5, the disability allowance shall be 50 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchas…

Notwithstanding Sections 21406, 21407, 21408, 21409, and 21411, any state member who becomes subject to Section 21159 on or after January 1, 1993, and retires for industrial disability because of incapacity for the performance of duties in any employment with the state employer, …

Upon retirement of a state safety member for industrial disability he or she shall receive a disability retirement allowance of 50 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchased with his or her accumulated additional contributions, if any, or, if qualified for…

Upon retirement of a state industrial member for industrial disability he or she shall receive a disability retirement allowance of 50 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchased with his or her accumulated additional contributions, if any, or, if qualified…

Upon retirement of a local safety member for industrial disability he or she shall receive a disability retirement allowance of 50 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchased with his or her accumulated additional contributions, if any, or, if qualified for…

Upon retirement of a local miscellaneous member for industrial disability, he or she shall receive a disability allowance of 50 percent of his or her final compensation plus an annuity purchased with his or her accumulated additional contributions, if any, or, if qualified for se…

Notwithstanding any provision of this part to the contrary, a retired state safety or state peace officer/firefighter member who, before January 1, 1986, was eligible for an industrial disability allowance and was living on or after December 30, 1989, but elected, instead, for a …

Notwithstanding any provision of this part, a state safety member employed by the Department of Corrections or the Department of the Youth Authority with 25 years or more of service credit as such, shall, upon retirement on or after January 1, 1982, for industrial disability, rec…

The disability retirement allowance for a patrol, state safety, state peace officer/firefighter, state industrial, or local safety member retired because of industrial disability shall be derived from his or her accumulated normal contributions and the contributions of his or her…

This system shall deduct the amount of advanced disability pension payments made to a local safety member pursuant to Section 4850.3 or 4850.4 of the Labor Code from the member’s retroactive disability allowance, and reimburse the local agency that has made the advanced disabilit…

The system shall deduct the amount of interim disability allowance made to a state member pursuant to subdivision (i) of Section 19253.5 from the member’s retroactive disability allowance, and reimburse the state agency that has made the interim disability allowance payments. If …

If a member retired for industrial disability has made contributions in respect to service rendered in a category of membership other than the category in which he or she was at the time he or she suffered the disability or incurred the disease causing his or her retirement for i…

Every member retired for disability for whom a different disability retirement allowance is not prescribed by any other provision of this article, including a member who is entitled to an industrial disability retirement allowance if the disability is industrial but who retires f…

The disability retirement pension, other than an industrial disability retirement pension, for a member, other than a member who is subject to Section 21424 or 21427, shall be such an amount as with that portion of his or her annuity provided by his or her accumulated normal cont…

The nonindustrial disability retirement pension for state miscellaneous or state industrial service subject to Section 21076 or 21076.5 shall be one of the following: (a) Ninety percent of one-eightieth of his or her final compensation, multiplied by the number of years of servic…

In no event shall the disability retirement pension under Sections 21422 and 21423 be more than sufficient to make the disability retirement allowance, exclusive of any annuity provided by accumulated additional contributions, exceed the service retirement allowance, exclusive of…

The disability retirement allowance of a local miscellaneous and local safety member whose effective date of retirement for nonindustrial disability is after June 14, 1975, and whose last employment preceding retirement was with an employer subject to this section shall be increa…

Upon retirement of a local safety member or a local miscellaneous member for industrial disability, if the member is totally disabled he or she shall receive in lieu of the allowance otherwise provided by this article a disability retirement allowance equal to 75 percent of his o…

(a) Upon retirement of a patrol member for industrial disability as the result of a single event that results in serious bodily injury, the member shall receive the higher of the allowance provided by Section 21406, or, the disability allowance otherwise provided pursuant to this…

Upon retirement of a local safety member for industrial disability, the member shall receive in lieu of the allowance otherwise provided by this article a disability retirement allowance in the amount of the percentage of final compensation equal to the percentage of permanent di…

If, prior to attaining the minimum age for voluntary retirement for service applicable to members of his or her class, a recipient of a disability retirement allowance, other than one for industrial disability, engages in a gainful occupation not in state service, the board shall…

This system shall provide to any member who requests materials relating to retirement, a written explanation of the effects, if any, of each possible decision relating to the selection of optional settlements, beneficiaries, and survivor benefits upon health benefits that are pro…

In lieu of the retirement allowance for his or her life alone, a member or retired member may elect, or revoke or change a previous election prior to the approval of the previous election, to have the actuarial equivalent of his or her retirement allowance as of the date of retir…

The lesser retirement allowance under an optional settlement elected at retirement for law enforcement members whose retirement is effective prior to October 1, 1965, and who are entitled to receive benefits under the federal system, shall be actuarially equivalent to that part o…

An election, revocation, or change of election shall be made within 30 calendar days after the making of the first payment on account of any retirement allowance or, in the event of a change of retirement status after retirement, within 30 calendar days after the making of the fi…

Notwithstanding Section 21453, an election of optional settlement 2 or 3, or optional settlement 4 involving life contingency in which a spouse is designated as the beneficiary, may be modified as provided in this section in the event of a dissolution of marriage or a legal separ…

Optional settlement 1 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to the member until his or her death and if the member dies before he or she receives in annuity payments the amount of his or her accumulated contributions at retirement, to have the balance at death…

Optional settlement 2 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death and thereafter to his or her beneficiary for life. If the beneficiary predeceases the member and the member elected this section to be effective on or after January …

Optional settlement 3 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death, and thereafter to have one-half of his or her retirement allowance paid to his or her beneficiary for life. If the beneficiary predeceases the member and the member…

Optional settlement 4 consists of such other benefits as are the actuarial equivalent of a member’s retirement allowance, that he or she may select subject to the approval of the board. However, the actuarial equivalent of benefits under this optional settlement payable to the me…

A member who elects to receive optional settlement 2 or 3 may concurrently and irrevocably elect to waive the provision for an increase to his or her allowance due to the death of his or her beneficiary, a dissolution of marriage or a legal separation in which the judgment dividi…

A member who elects to receive the unmodified allowance or optional settlement 1, or optional settlement 2, 3, or 4 with or without making the election specified in Section 21459, and who names his or her spouse as the option beneficiary, and whose spouse is also an eligible surv…

(a) A member retiring for service may elect to have the actuarial equivalent of his or her unmodified service retirement allowance paid in two parts as follows: (1) A temporary annuity in an amount specified by the member but which shall not result in a reduction to his or her un…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 21461, a member retiring for service who became a member of the system on or after January 1, 2002, and who is covered under the federal system but is not yet receiving a retirement or disability benefit under that system, may elect to have the actuari…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, a member who elected to receive optional settlement 2, 3, or 4 at retirement, involving a life contingency of the beneficiary, may, if the beneficiary predeceases the member or if the member marries and the former spouse w…

A member who elected to receive optional settlement 2 or 3 and whose beneficiary predeceases him or her, shall be entitled to receive the increased allowance pursuant to Section 21456 or Section 21457, as applicable, unless the member elected to waive the provision for an increas…

Notwithstanding any provision of this part, a retired member who chose no optional settlement or optional settlement one at retirement and who marries after retirement may elect to have the actuarial equivalent, as of the date of the election, of the allowance payable for the rem…

(a) Optional settlement 5 consists of a partial distribution of the actuarial present value of the portion, as specified in this section, of the member’s unmodified monthly allowance, as prescribed in Section 21362, 21362.2, 21363, 21363.1, 21363.4, or 21423, when a service retir…

This system shall provide to any member who retires on or after January 1, 2018, and requests materials relating to retirement, a written explanation of the effects, if any, of each possible decision relating to the selection of optional settlements, beneficiaries, and survivor b…

(a) The unmodified allowance consists of the right to have the maximum retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death. There is no continuing allowance to a beneficiary and there is no return of unused accumulated contributions after the death of the member. (b) Thi…

(a) In lieu of electing the unmodified allowance, a member may elect to have the actuarial equivalent of his or her unmodified allowance as of the date of retirement applied to a lesser retirement allowance, in accordance with one of the optional settlements specified in this art…

If a member elects an optional settlement that provides for a monthly allowance for his or her named beneficiary or beneficiaries, the combined allowance payable to the member’s named beneficiary or beneficiaries and the member’s survivor pursuant to Section 21624, 21629, or 2163…

(a) An election, revocation, or change of election shall be made within 30 calendar days after the making of the first payment on account of any retirement allowance or, in the event of a change of retirement status after retirement, within 30 calendar days after the making of th…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 21472, the election of an optional settlement in Section 21475, 21475.5, 21476, 21476.5, or 21477 in which a spouse is designated as the beneficiary, may be modified as provided in this section in the event of a dissolution of marriage or a legal separ…

(a) The Return of Remaining Contributions Option 1 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death and if he or she dies before he or she receives in annuity payments the amount of his or her accumulated contributions at retirement, to…

(a) The 100 Percent Beneficiary Option 2 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death, and thereafter to have the same monthly allowance paid to his or her named beneficiary for life; provided that with respect to a member subject t…

(a) The 100 Percent Beneficiary Option 2 with Benefit Allowance Increase consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death and thereafter to have the same monthly allowance paid to his or her named beneficiary for life; provided that wit…

(a) The 50 Percent Beneficiary Option 3 consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death, and thereafter to have one-half of the member’s monthly allowance paid to his or her named beneficiary for life; provided that with respect to a m…

(a) The 50 Percent Beneficiary Option 3 with Benefit Allowance Increase consists of the right to have a retirement allowance paid to a member until his or her death, and thereafter to have one-half of the member’s monthly allowance paid to his or her named beneficiary for life; p…