Title 5 — Title 5: State Employees

Sec. 5-152. Short title: State Employees Retirement Act. This chapter is known and shall be cited as the “State Employees Retirement Act”. (1961, P.A. 234, S. 1.)

Sec. 5-153. Continuance from prior law. The State Employees Retirement Commission and the state employees retirement system, as existing on September 30, 1961, shall be continued in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this chapter. Each person who was a member of the…

Sec. 5-154. Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter: (a) “Covered under Social Security” means, with regard to a state employee, that the state is required to make contributions for the employee under the Social Security Agreement; (b) “Federal Insurance Contributions Act” …

Sec. 5-155. Retirement Commission. Section 5-155 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 381; September, 1957, P.A. 11, S. 13; 1958 Rev., S. 5-95; 1961, P.A. 234, S. 4; P.A. 73-346; P.A. 75-33; P.A. 77-236; P.A. 80-478, S. 1, 3; P.A. 83-533, S. 53, 54.)

Sec. 5-155a. Connecticut State Employees Retirement Commission. Membership. Powers and duties. Alternate retirement program. Regulations. Report by Treasurer. Claims process. (a) Members. The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the state employee…

Sec. 5-155b. Regulations re claims and contested cases. The State Employees Retirement Commission shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, which establish the standards and criteria used by the commission (1) to review and reconsider decisions to …

Sec. 5-156. Retirement fund. Contribution of participants in alternate retirement program. (a) All member contributions and state appropriations shall be held in a separate retirement fund by the Treasurer, who may invest and reinvest as much of the fund as is not required for cu…

Sec. 5-156a. Funding of retirement system on actuarial reserve basis. (a)(1) The state employees retirement system shall be funded on an actuarial reserve basis. The Retirement Commission shall, on or before December first, annually certify to the General Assembly the amount nece…

Sec. 5-156b. Employment of actuaries. The Retirement Commission shall employ the services of one or more actuaries, each of which shall be an individual or firm having on its staff a fellow of the society of actuaries, to carry out the actuarial duties of sections 5-156, 5-156a a…

Sec. 5-156c. Erroneous payments; adjustment; waiver of repayment; regulations. (a) Should any change or error in records result in any member or beneficiary receiving from any retirement system administered by the State Employees Retirement Commission more or less than he would h…

Sec. 5-156d. Mailing date for benefit checks. The Retirement Division of the Comptroller's office shall mail retirement benefit checks not later than three business days prior to the date on which such checks are payable. (P.A. 87-381, S. 2; 87-589, S. 38, 87.) History: P.A. 87-5…

Sec. 5-156e. Lump sum payment after audit to include interest. Any lump sum payment to a retired member of the state employees retirement system which represents the difference between the preaudit benefit received by the member and the actual benefit to which the member is entit…

Sec. 5-156f. Study re funding of past service liability. Additional contributions. Section 5-156f is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 92-205, S. 4, 5, 12; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-14, S. 1, 11; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 5-156g. Electronic direct deposit of pension payments. Unless otherwise requested by the recipient, any pension payment made under (1) the retirement system administered by the Connecticut State Employees Retirement Commission pursuant to this chapter, or (2) an alternate re…

Sec. 5-156h. Limitation on amount of retirement income for certain members not subject to terms of collective bargaining agreement. (a) For the purposes of this section, “member”, “retirement system”, and “state employee” have the same meanings as provided in section 5-154. (b) (…

Sec. 5-157. Retirement system–parts A and B. (a) For purposes of the Social Security Agreement, the retirement system shall be divided into two parts, known as part A and part B. Part A shall consist of the positions of state employees, other than state police, who are members bu…

Sec. 5-158. Social Security–special coverage rules. (a) The following services of state employees in positions not covered by the retirement system and in positions covered by the retirement system but who are ineligible to be members shall not be covered under Social Security: (…

Sec. 5-158a. Part A and B members may elect to participate in part A and Social Security. Each state employee who is a member of the state employees retirement system, part A, or who is a member of the state employees retirement system, part B, or who becomes a member of either o…

Sec. 5-158b. Payment by part B member for such participation after transfer from part A. (a) Each state employee who is a member of the state employees retirement system, part B, and who elected to become a part B member after having been a part A member, shall, upon payment to t…

Sec. 5-158c. Payment by part B member, without prior part A membership, for such participation. Each state employee who became a member of the state employees retirement system, part B, without having first become a member of such system, part A, shall, upon payment of such sum t…

Sec. 5-158d. Payment by part A member for such participation. Each state employee who is a member of the state employees retirement system, part A, may, upon the enactment of and pursuant to federal-enabling legislation, elect to be covered by Social Security and, from the date o…

Sec. 5-158e. Transfer from part A to part B. Each state employee who is a member of the state employees retirement system, part A, may, upon the enactment of and pursuant to federal-enabling legislation, elect to become a member of such retirement system, part B, and, from the da…

Sec. 5-158f. Election by new employees. Special option to nonmembers. Retirement system provisions not applicable to employees in federally funded positions. Each new state employee who may be entitled to become eligible for membership in the state employees retirement system, pa…

Sec. 5-158g. Effect on options. Each state employee who elects, under the provisions of sections 5-158a to 5-158f, inclusive, to contribute to both Social Security and full part A of the state employees retirement system and who has, in effect, an option providing for his spouse,…

Sec. 5-158h. Transfers between parts A and B. (a) Notwithstanding any provisions of part III of this chapter to the contrary, each state employee or member who is covered under the state employees retirement system and also under Social Security shall have the right to determine …

Sec. 5-159. Social Security contributions. The Comptroller shall deduct from the salary of each state employee who is covered under Social Security, and the state shall contribute, the amount required of each under the federal Insurance Contributions Act. The Comptroller shall ve…

Sec. 5-159a. Social Security Agreement retroactive. The Social Security Agreement as defined in section 5-154 shall be made retroactive to the extent permitted by the Social Security Act as defined in said section, but not prior to January 1, 1956. The state shall pay for its sha…

Sec. 5-159b. Election of refunds by state employees in federally funded jobs. State employees in positions funded in whole or in part by the federal government as part of any public service employment program, on-the-job training program or work experience program may elect to re…

Sec. 5-160. Eligibility. (a) Each state employee appointed to the classified service shall become a member on the first day of the pay period following the date he receives a permanent appointment in the classified service except that membership shall not be required of such empl…

Sec. 5-161. Retirement contributions. (a) Each member covered under Social Security shall make retirement contributions equal to: Two per cent on that portion of his salary on which the state is making contributions under the Social Security Agreement; plus five per cent on that …

Sec. 5-162. Retirement date and retirement income. (a) The retirement income for which a member is eligible shall be determined from his retirement date, years of state service and base salary, in accordance with the schedule in subsection (c) or (d) below, whichever is appropria…

Sec. 5-162a. Biennial adjustment of salary of retired employees. Section 5-162a is repealed. (1967, P.A. 637, S. 11, 12; 1969, P.A. 661, S. 10.)

Sec. 5-162b. Cost of living adjustment for employees retired on or before June 30, 1975. On July 1, 1978, and on July first of each subsequent year, each employee and the spouse of each deceased employee who had elected the husband and wife retirement income option, retired under…

Sec. 5-162c. Annual adjustments in allowances to retired employees. Section 5-162c is repealed. (1969, P.A. 661, S. 7; P.A. 73-534, S. 1, 4; P.A. 75-421, S. 4, 5.)

Sec. 5-162d. Tier I cost of living allowance for members retiring on or after July 1, 1975. (a) Each employee retiring on or after July 1, 1975, and prior to the effective date of the next collective bargaining agreement following July 1, 1978, which applies to such employee and …

Sec. 5-162e. Cost of living adjustment. Section 5-162e is repealed. (S.A. 74-31, S. 15, 22; P.A. 74-338, S. 90, 94; P.A. 75-421, S. 4, 5.)

Sec. 5-162f. Minimum monthly retirement income. On or after October 1, 1982, each retired member who (1) has completed twenty-five years of state service in accordance with subsection (c) of section 5-162, (2) has completed twenty years of hazardous duty service described in sect…

Sec. 5-162g. Part-time employees; eligibility; computation of benefits. (a) For purposes of determining eligibility for retirement benefits for part-time employees under subsection (d) of section 5-162 and subsection (d) of section 5-163a, a member's part-time service shall be tr…

Sec. 5-162h. Cost of living adjustment. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5-162b and 5-162d, on and after October 1, 1982, the cost-of-living allowance increase for members or their beneficiaries who are receiving benefits under the provisions of tier I shall be up t…

Sec. 5-163. Early retirement. (a)(1) Each member who retires or who has been retired under the retirement system before attaining full retirement age under the Social Security Act, as amended from time to time, shall receive additional temporary monthly retirement income payable …

Sec. 5-163a. Eligibility for retirement prior to June 30, 1980. Retirement income. (a) Any member who has completed twenty-five years of state service and has reached the age of fifty prior to June 30, 1980, may elect to be retired on the first day of the month following such app…

Sec. 5-163b. Supplemental retirement benefit for certain members eligible to retire on or before July 1, 1989. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter and subsection (f) of section 5-278 to the contrary, any member of the state employees retirement system (1) who is in acti…

Sec. 5-164. Continuance in office or position after retirement date. (a) A department head, as defined in section 4-5, or any commissioner appointed to office in the executive branch by the Governor with or without the approval of the General Assembly or either branch thereof, wh…

Sec. 5-164a. Retirement credit of retired employees who are reemployed or elected to serve in the General Assembly. (a) Any person who has retired from the service of the state under any provision of this chapter and who is reemployed on a permanent basis may elect, upon completi…

Sec. 5-165. Optional forms of retirement income. (a) A member may elect one of the following optional forms for retirement income by filing with the Retirement Commission a written election on a form provided by the commission. A member who has been married at least one year shal…

Sec. 5-165a. Benefit payable if member dies prior to retirement. (a) If a member who is continuing to accrue state service or who is on a leave authorized by the state, or otherwise granted pursuant to the terms of the appropriate collective bargaining agreement, dies after July …

Sec. 5-165b. Options elected prior to July 1, 1969. Section 5-165b is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1969, P.A. 661, S. 4; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 5-166. Leaving state service before becoming eligible for retirement. (a) Except as provided in section 5-163a, a member who leaves state service before he is eligible for retirement but after completing at least ten years of state service, of which at least five years shall…

Sec. 5-166a. Election by judges. Any person who is appointed a judge of the Supreme Court or Superior Court, or, prior to July 1, 1978, was appointed to the Common Pleas, Circuit or Juvenile Court and who has, at the time of appointment, at least ten years of state service to suc…

Sec. 5-167. Contributions for prior years. (a) A former member who withdrew his retirement contributions and who is reemployed in state service within five years after he left state service, or who is reemployed and due to such reemployment is covered by the provisions of the tie…