Title 10 — Title 10: Education and Culture

Sec. 10-183aa. Disability allowance. (a)(1) An active member is eligible for a disability allowance if he or she has (A) become disabled as a result of any sickness or injury incurred in the performance of his or her duty as a teacher, without regard to the member's accumulated y…

Sec. 10-183b. Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Actuarial reserve basis” means a basis under which the liabilities of the retirement system are determined under acceptable actuarial methods and under which assets are accumulated und…

Sec. 10-183bb. Suspension or reduction of retirement income payments during disability. (a) Retirement income payments being made to a member shall be suspended during any period when the member is receiving disability payments and necessary medical and hospital expenses because …

Sec. 10-183c. Teachers' retirement system established. Benefits contractual. (a) The Connecticut teachers' retirement system is established to provide retirement and other benefits for teachers, their survivors and beneficiaries. On or after a member vests in the system by becomi…

Sec. 10-183cc. Payments on behalf of minor or legally incapable payees. If the payee for any payment of benefits under the provisions of this chapter is a minor, or if the Teachers' Retirement Board finds that any payee is legally incapable of giving a valid receipt and discharge…

Sec. 10-183d. Members of association to become members of system. Any member of the Teachers' Retirement Association, established by prior law, on July 1, 1978 shall automatically be a member of the system. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all members including inact…

Sec. 10-183dd. Retirement contributions; quarterly allocations. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the general statutes to the contrary, the amounts appropriated to the Teachers' Retirement Board for retirement contributions under section 1 of special act 82-10 for the fisc…

Sec. 10-183e. Credited service. (a)(1) A member shall receive a month of credited service for each month of service, from September to June, inclusive, as a teacher, provided the member makes the mandatory contribution for each month. Ten months of credited service shall be deeme…

Sec. 10-183ee. Unclaimed contributions. Procedure for claiming. (a) After at least twenty-five years have elapsed since a vested member, or ten years have elapsed since a nonvested member, of the teachers' retirement system ceased to be a teacher for any cause other than death or…

Sec. 10-183f. Benefit eligibility. (a) Normal retirement. A member is eligible to receive a normal retirement benefit if such member (1) has attained age sixty and has accumulated twenty years of credited service in the public schools of Connecticut, or (2) has attained any age a…

Sec. 10-183ff. Erroneous payments; adjustment, repayment or refund. Erroneous invoices; purchase of additional credited service. Payment of benefits when material error in estimate of benefits statement. (a) Should any change or error in records result in any member or beneficiar…

Sec. 10-183g. Benefit rates. Commencing and ending dates. (a) Normal retirement. The normal retirement benefit shall be two per cent times the number of years of full-time credited service and a proportional fraction of two per cent times the number of years of credited service a…

Sec. 10-183gg. Part-time service. Determination of benefits. Part-time service averaging at least one-half of a school day but less than a full school day shall be treated as full-time service for purposes of determining eligibility for benefits under this chapter. For purposes o…

Sec. 10-183h. Death benefits. (a) Survivors' benefits; waiver. The basic monthly survivor's benefit, subject to a family maximum of one thousand five hundred dollars, shall be (1) three hundred dollars each for a surviving spouse, plus twenty-five dollars for each year of service…

Sec. 10-183hh. Credit for certain service as a school nurse. For purposes of calculating retirement benefits under the provisions of this chapter, service as a school nurse during the years 1970 to 1975, inclusive, shall be considered as credited service as a teacher during the s…

Sec. 10-183i. Member's voluntary contributions. Limitations. (a) A member may make voluntary contributions to the system and may, no more than once, withdraw such voluntary contributions from the system under rules of the board. Any voluntary contribution shall be made solely by …

Sec. 10-183ii. Mailing date for benefit checks. Electronic transmission of benefit payments. The Teachers' Retirement Board shall mail retirement benefit checks on the next to last business day prior to the date on which such checks are payable. Any member whose retirement benefi…

Sec. 10-183j. Benefit options. Period certain. Coparticipant's option. Retention of option after divorce. (a) A member shall elect one of the benefit options described in this section. A member may amend or revoke such benefit option election by delivering written notice, signed …

Sec. 10-183jj. Retirement incentive plans for teachers. (a) A local or regional board of education may establish a retirement incentive plan for teachers in its employ who are members of the teachers' retirement system. The plan shall provide for purchase of additional credited s…

Sec. 10-183k. Termination of service prior to retirement. (a) A member who voluntarily or involuntarily terminates service with the member's employer, including termination due to the member's death, before retirement shall be entitled to have refunded his or her accumulated volu…

Sec. 10-183kk. Employer pick up of mandatory contributions commencing July 1, 1991. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, mandatory retirement contributions described in subdivision (7) of section 10-183b payable on all salary earned on or after July 1, 1991, shal…

Sec. 10-183l. Teachers' Retirement Board. Valuation of fund. (a)(1) On and after July 1, 1991, the management of the system shall continue to be vested in the Teachers' Retirement Board, whose members shall include the Treasurer, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Manageme…

Sec. 10-183ll. Supplemental retirement benefit for certain members whose retirement became effective between July 1, 1989, and November 1, 1989. Section 10-183ll is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 90-331, S. 1, 3; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 10-183m. Custody of funds. (a) All funds of the system shall be in the custody of the State Treasurer who shall invest such portions of the same not required for current disbursements in accordance with the statutes governing the investment of savings bank funds or, when dee…

Sec. 10-183mm. Continuation of membership during service as elected official. Any member of the teachers' retirement system elected to serve as a full-time, salaried, official of the state or any political subdivision of the state during the 1988 calendar year or thereafter may e…

Sec. 10-183n. Duties of teachers' employers. Transmission of deductions. (a) Each employer shall: (1) Before employing a teacher, notify such teacher of the provisions of this chapter applicable to such teacher; (2) distribute, post or otherwise disseminate in a timely manner, to…

Sec. 10-183nn. Review and adoption of revised actuarial assumptions. Publication in House and Senate journals. Commencing July 1, 1995, and every five years thereafter, the Teachers' Retirement Board shall review all actuarial assumptions used in the valuation of the assets and l…

Sec. 10-183o. Payments to retirement board for persons in armed forces. During any period when this country is at war, a board of education may pay to the retirement board the mandatory contributions of members who were in its employ at the time of entering into the armed forces,…

Sec. 10-183oo. Subsidy for certain members. Any retired member who (1) has attained the age of sixty-five, (2) is not eligible for Medicare Part A, (3) is not receiving a spousal subsidy, (4) has twenty-five years or more of full-time service, and (5) is receiving a monthly benef…

Sec. 10-183p. Purchase of service credit by members who are participants in other retirement systems. Any member who is also a participant in an alternate retirement program, as defined in subsection (u) of section 5-154, the state employees retirement system or any other retirem…

Sec. 10-183pp. Benefits readjusted for certain members. Any member who began receiving disability benefits October 1, 1977, under the provisions of subsection (d) of section 10-166 and who elected to receive benefits in accordance with the former provisions of subsection (c) of s…

Sec. 10-183q. Funds not assignable and exempt from attachment. Alternate payee. (a) The portion of each member's compensation deducted or to be deducted under this chapter and all rights of each member and of each survivor to receive benefits or other payments under this chapter:…

Sec. 10-183qq. Bond authorization for a portion of unfunded liability of Teachers' Retirement Fund. (a) The State Bond Commission shall have power, in accordance with the provisions of this section, from time to time to authorize the issuance of bonds of the state in one or more …

Sec. 10-183r. Funding of system. Payment of administration expenses, benefit costs and professional fees for administration of health benefit plans. The system shall be funded as follows: (1) Except as provided in subdivision (3) of this section, all expenses of the administratio…

Sec. 10-183rr. No credit for improperly certified teacher. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (28) of section 10-183b concerning the requirement that a teacher hold a certificate for the position in which the person is employed, any teacher who possesses a certificate …

Sec. 10-183s. Reimbursement of municipalities. Any municipality exempted from the provisions of this chapter shall be reimbursed in July of each year for retirement benefits paid by the municipality to a teacher retired by the municipality. The employer of the retired teacher sha…

Sec. 10-183ss. Electronic direct deposit of pension payments. Unless otherwise requested by the recipient, any pension payment made under section 10-183c shall be made by electronic direct deposit to the recipient's account in a bank, Connecticut credit union or federal credit un…

Sec. 10-183t. Health insurance. (a) The board shall offer one or more health benefit plans to: Any member receiving retirement benefits or a disability allowance from the system; the spouse or surviving spouse of such member, and a disabled dependent of such member if there is no…

Sec. 10-183tt. Teachers' Retirement System Viability Commission. Membership. Global consulting firm. Contract. Financial viability plan. Termination of commission. (a) There is established the Teachers' Retirement System Viability Commission, which shall consist of the members of…

Sec. 10-183u. Participation in hospital insurance benefits under Social Security Act. Section 10-183u is repealed. (P.A. 78-208, S. 20, 35; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 86-1, S. 54, 58.)

Sec. 10-183uu. Teachers' Retirement Board data. Interagency agreement between Secretary of Office of Policy and Management and state agency. (a) If the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management enters into a contract with an actuarial consulting firm or actuarial software …

Sec. 10-183v. Reemployment of teachers. (a)(1) Except as provided in subdivisions (2) and (3) of this subsection and subsection (b) of this section, a teacher receiving retirement benefits from the system may not be employed by an employer in a teaching position receiving compens…

Sec. 10-183vv. Connecticut Teachers' Retirement Fund Bonds Special Capital Reserve Fund. Fund pledged to payment on bonds. Certification of fund balance. Termination. (a)(1) There is established the Connecticut Teachers' Retirement Fund Bonds Special Capital Reserve Fund. The pur…

Sec. 10-183w. Retirement at age seventy. Exception. Section 10-183w is repealed. (P.A. 78-208, S. 22, 35; P.A. 79-427; P.A. 87-381, S. 4.)

Sec. 10-183ww. Credited interest percentage and return assumption. Revised actuarial valuation and certification to General Assembly. (a) Not later than fourteen business days after the last action necessary to make effective a state budget act for the biennium ending June 30, 20…

Sec. 10-183x. Benefits under prior law preserved. (a) All persons receiving benefits from the system on June 30, 1978, and all persons who subsequently become entitled to receive benefits as beneficiaries of persons receiving such benefits on said date shall receive those benefit…

Sec. 10-183xx. Rollover accounts for members who submit retirement application: Distributions. Polices and procedures. Restrictions. (a) The Teachers' Retirement Board shall establish a rollover account for each active, inactive and disabled member who submits a formal applicatio…

Sec. 10-183y. Appeal to board for reconsideration. Any member may appeal to the Teachers' Retirement Board for reconsideration of a decision of the board affecting such member. Such member shall submit with such appeal a written statement identifying the section of the general st…

Sec. 10-183z. Funding of system on actuarial reserve basis. Use of funds. (a) The retirement system for teachers shall be funded on an actuarial reserve basis. The retirement board shall, on or before December first, annually, certify to the General Assembly the amount necessary,…