Title 5 — Title 5: State Employees

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 Section 5-162a is repealed.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 Section 5-162c is repealed.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 Section 5-162e is repealed.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…

Sec. 5-168. Death benefit–beneficiaries. (a) Upon the death of a member before his retirement date, the beneficiary named by the member shall receive a death benefit equal to the member's retirement contributions, without interest. (b) Upon the death of a member after his retirem…

Sec. 5-168a. Death benefit where member elected option. If income payments are payable from the state employees retirement system under section 5-165 or section 5-165a to a beneficiary of a member, then the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of section 5-168 shall not apply to…

Sec. 5-169. Disability retirement. Calculation. Board. Limitation of benefits. Offset and maximum benefit limitation. Cost of living adjustment. Alternative disability compensation. Board petition. (a) If a member of the state employees retirement system, while in state service, …

Sec. 5-170. Effect of workers' compensation and disability payments. (a) Except as provided in subsection (i) of section 5-169, a member shall not be entitled to receive or retain retirement income payments made for any period for which the member has received or receives disabil…

Sec. 5-171. Assignments prohibited. Any assignment by a member or beneficiary of any amount payable to either under the terms of this chapter shall be null and void. Each such payment shall be for the support of the member or beneficiary entitled thereto and shall be exempt from …

Sec. 5-172. Minor and incompetent payees. If the payee for any payment under this chapter is a minor, or if the Retirement Commission finds that any payee is legally incapable of giving a valid receipt and discharge for any payment due him, the Comptroller may, upon the advice of…

Sec. 5-172a. Health service insurance coverage for certain retired state employees. Section 5-172a is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (1971, P.A. 625, S. 1; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.) PART IV SPECIAL SERVICE CREDIT RULES

Sec. 5-173. Hazardous duty service. (a) A state policeman in the active service of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, or any person who is engaged in guard or instructional duties at the Connecticut Correctional Institu…

Sec. 5-174. Educational leave. A member who is or has been granted a leave of absence without pay to pursue a course of study which is connected with the work of the agency and which is for the purpose of increasing his proficiency in his position shall be entitled to credit towa…

Sec. 5-174a. Sick leave. A member of the state employees retirement system who is or has been granted a leave of absence without pay for the protection or improvement of his health shall be entitled to credit toward retirement for the period of such leave, but not to exceed twelv…

Sec. 5-175. State-aided institutions. (a) Employees of each of the following-named private corporations, herein called state-aided institutions, shall be covered by the retirement system: The American School at Hartford for the Deaf, The Connecticut Institute for the Blind and Ne…

Sec. 5-175a. Operators of vending stands in public buildings. Credit for prior years of service. (a) Vending stand operators, operating stands under permits held by the Department of Aging and Disability Services pursuant to section 17a-818, shall be members of the state employee…

Sec. 5-175b. Time limit for purchase of certain kinds of service credit. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5-176, 5-177, 5-177a, 5-181, 5-184, 5-187a, 5-189, 5-190, 5-190a, 5-192a, subsection (b) of section 5-180 and subsections (b) and (d) of section 5-182, no member wh…

Sec. 5-176. Prior public school service. A member with permanent status who was previously employed in the public schools of this state and who was a member of the Teachers' Retirement Association, may receive credit for retirement purposes for all such service for which he paid …

Sec. 5-177. Credit for out-of-state or foreign service to educational institutions. Any person in the unclassified service employed full time by the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut, the State Board of Education, the Technical Education and Career System, the De…

Sec. 5-177a. Credit for university employees with prior service as hospital pharmacist. Any person in the unclassified service employed full time by The University of Connecticut, who served prior to his employment by the state in a teaching or administrative position as a hospit…

Sec. 5-178. Probation officers. Any municipal employee who has been taken into state service under the provisions of section N231 of the November, 1955, supplement to the general statutes shall be credited with his entire period of service as a municipal employee for retirement p…

Sec. 5-179. Services paid for by federal grant. The time during which any state employee performed services, the direction of which remained in the state agency to which such employee was attached although his compensation was paid directly by federal grant, shall be considered a…

Sec. 5-180. Military service. (a) The war service before September 1, 1939, of a veteran, as defined in section 27-103 and section 5-196, shall be counted as state service if the member began to make his retirement contributions before September 1, 1941, and made retirement contr…

Sec. 5-181. Credit for prior state service. Credit for service in the General Assembly. (a) A member who has been in state service for some past period or periods not otherwise credited for retirement purposes, and for which he cannot obtain credit for retirement purposes under a…

Sec. 5-181a. Credit for service with United States federal government. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5-175b, a member of the state employees retirement system who has been in the active full-time employment of the United States federal government for some past period …

Sec. 5-181b. Continuation of membership during service as elected official. (a) Any member of tier I of the state employees retirement system elected to serve as an official of the state or any political subdivision of the state during the 1988 calendar year or thereafter may ele…

Sec. 5-182. Miscellaneous service credits. (a) A member who has made contributions on all his salary received from September 1, 1939, to his retirement date, and who began to make his retirement contributions before September 1, 1941, shall receive credit for his service before S…

Sec. 5-183. Transferred county employees. (a) The employees of any county participating in chapter 48 of the general statutes, revision of 1949, who were taken into state service under the provisions of section 1464d of the 1955 supplement thereto shall be credited with their ent…

Sec. 5-184. Credit for service with county or county agricultural extension office. Any full-time state employee and any appointee of the General Assembly or either branch thereof, or of any officer or committee thereof, who served previously as a county employee or in a clerical…

Sec. 5-185. County trust funds transferred to retirement fund. Any trust fund established for retirement purposes by a county and which was on June 21, 1961, in the possession of the State Treasurer shall be transferred to the State Employees Retirement Fund. Each employee for wh…

Sec. 5-186. Transfer from Municipal Retirement Fund. Except as provided in section 6-2b, there shall be no further liability of any county for payment into the Connecticut Municipal Employees' Retirement Fund. There shall be transferred to the State Employees Retirement Fund from…

Sec. 5-187. Sheriffs and chief deputies. (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the sheriff of each county and the chief deputy sheriff of each county are employees of the state so far as salaries received by them from the state are concerned, including fees on a Judicial Departme…

Sec. 5-187a. Credit for former service as deputy sheriff. Any member of the state employees retirement system who as a former deputy sheriff served prior to 1952 as a court officer in the Supreme Court, the Superior Court or the Court of Common Pleas may elect to obtain credit un…