Title 38, CIVIL SERVICE AND RETIREMENT

Sec. 17l. (1) An employee of the state accident fund who has 5 or more but less than 10 years of credited service as of the effective date of the transfer in order to qualify for a retirement allowance under this act may purchase additional service credit under this subsection. A…

Sec. 17m. (1) A member may elect to purchase not more than 5 years of service credit less the number of years of service credit purchased under sections 17e, 17f, and 17k, upon request and payment to the retirement system of the actuarial cost. (2) Service credit purchased under …

Sec. 17n. (1) A member may transfer or purchase service credit earned when the member was an employee of a city with a population over 750,000 if all of the following apply: (a) The member became a member on September 1, 1981. (b) The member was employed by a city with a populati…

Sec. 18. (1) A member of the retirement system who, while an employee of this state, was or who is drafted or enlisted into active military or other armed service of the United States government during time of war, or a member who is drafted or enlisted into active armed service …

Sec. 19. (1) A member who is 60 years of age or older and has 10 or more years of credited service or a member who is 60 years of age or older and has 5 or more years of credited service as provided in section 20(4) or (5) may retire upon written application to the retirement boa…

Sec. 19a. (1) Notwithstanding section 19, a member who is employed by the state on May 1, 1984 may retire and receive a retirement allowance computed according to section 20 if the member satisfies all of the following requirements: (a) On the effective date of his or her retirem…

Sec. 19b. (1) Notwithstanding section 19, a member may retire and receive a retirement allowance computed under section 20(1) if the member meets all of the following requirements: (a) On the effective date of his or her retirement, the member has met the service requirements to …

Sec. 19c. (1) Notwithstanding section 19, a member may retire and receive a retirement allowance computed under section 20(1) if the member meets all of the following requirements: (a) On the effective date of his or her retirement, the member has met the service requirements to …

Sec. 19d. (1) Notwithstanding section 19, a member may retire and receive a retirement allowance computed under section 20(1) if the member meets all of the following requirements: (a) On the effective date of his or her retirement, the member has met the service requirements to …

Sec. 19e. (1) Notwithstanding section 19, a member may retire and receive a retirement allowance computed under section 20(1) if the member meets all of the following requirements: (a) On the effective date of his or her retirement, the member has met the service requirements to …

Sec. 19f. (1) Notwithstanding section 19, a member may retire and receive a retirement allowance computed under this section if the member meets all of the following requirements: (a) On the effective date of his or her retirement, the member meets 1 or more of the following: (i)…

Sec. 19g. (1) Notwithstanding section 19, a member may retire and receive a retirement allowance computed under this section if the member meets all of the following requirements: (a) On or before November 1, 2002, or on the effective date of his or her retirement, whichever is e…

Sec. 19h. Payments made after September 30, 1991, under sections 19b(2), 19c(2), 19d(2), 19e(2), and 19f(3) are not pensions, annuities, retirement allowances, optional benefits, or any other rights described in section 40(1), are not exempt from taxation, are subject to executio…

Sec. 19i. (1) Notwithstanding section 19, a member may retire and receive a retirement allowance computed under this section if the member meets all of the following requirements: (a) On or before December 31, 2002, or on the effective date of his or her retirement, whichever is …

Sec. 19j. (1) Notwithstanding section 19, a member may retire and receive a retirement allowance computed under this section if the member meets all of the following requirements: (a) On the last day of the month preceding the effective date of his or her retirement as stated in …

Sec. 1a. (1) "Accumulated contributions" means the sum of all amounts deducted from the compensation of a member and credited to the member's individual account in the employees' savings fund, together with regular interest on that account. (2) "Actuarial cost" means an amount th…

Sec. 1b. (1) "Beneficiary" or "disability beneficiary" means a person other than a retirant who receives a retirement allowance, pension, or other benefit provided by this act. (2) "Compensation" means the remuneration paid a member on account of the member's services rendered to…

Sec. 1c. (1) "Deferred member" means a member who is separated from state service for a reason other than retirement or death and who has satisfied the requirements of section 20(4) or (5) for a deferred retirement allowance. (2) "Designated temporary layoff" means the layoff of …

Sec. 1d. (1) Beginning January 1, 2002, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, "eligible retirement plan" means 1 or more of the following: (a) An individual retirement account described in section 408(a) of the internal revenue code, 26 USC 408. (b) An individual retir…

Sec. 1e. (1) "Final average compensation" means the average of those years of highest annual compensation paid to a member during a period of 5 consecutive years of credited service; or if the member has less than 5 years of credited service, then the average of the annual compen…

Sec. 1f. (1) "Member" means a state employee included in the membership of the retirement system, as provided for in section 13. (2) "Membership service" means all service rendered after July 1, 1943. (3) "New member" means a person who becomes a member of this retirement system …

Sec. 1g. (1) "Pay reduction plan A" means the plan available to or required of a member during the fiscal years ending on and after September 30, 1981 under which the member may elect to reduce by 1 hour or more in any full-time pay period the number of hours worked with a corres…

Sec. 1h. (1) "Regular interest" means a rate or rates per annum, compounded annually, as the retirement board determines. For the purposes of employee refunds, the interest rate payable shall not exceed 4% per annum, compounded annually. (2) "Retirant" means a person who has ceas…

Sec. 1i. (1) "Service" means service rendered to this state by an elected or appointed state official or employee of this state. Credit for service shall be determined by appropriate rules and regulations of the retirement board, but not more than 1 year of service shall be credi…

Sec. 2. (1) A state employees' retirement system is created for the employees of the state of Michigan. (2) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the administration and management of the retirement system and the responsibility for making effective the provisions of this …

Sec. 20. (1) Subject to section 20j, upon his or her retirement, as provided for in section 19, 19a, 19b, 19c, 19d, or 19e, a member shall receive a retirement allowance equal to the member's number of years and fraction of a year of credited service multiplied by 1-1/2% of his o…

Sec. 20a. After July 1, 1968 a retirant or a member who subsequently retires under the provisions of this act and who has completed at least 10 years of service shall receive a total retirement allowance of not less than $60.00 multiplied by his or her total number of years, but …

Sec. 20b. (1) On July 1, 1972, the monthly retirement allowance payable to a retirant or beneficiary who is on the rolls for June, 1971, is increased as follows: Effective Date of Retirement Percent of Increase August 1, 1970 to July 1, 1971 1 August 1, 1969 to July 1, 1970 2 Aug…

Sec. 20c. (1) On July 1, 1974, the monthly retirement allowance payable to a retirant or beneficiary who was on the rolls as such for June, 1973, is supplemented as follows: Effective Date of Retirement Percent of Increase July 1, 1972 to June 30, 1973 1 July 1, 1971 to June 30, …

Sec. 20d. (1) On and after July 1, 1974, hospitalization and medical coverage insurance premium payable by any retirant or his or her beneficiary and his or her dependents under any group health plan authorized by the Michigan civil service commission and the department of manage…

Sec. 20e. (1) After December 31, 1980, a retirant or beneficiary of a deceased retirant whose effective date of retirement benefit payable was before July 1, 1956, shall receive a supplemental to his or her retirement allowance in an amount sufficient to produce a total retiremen…

Sec. 20f. (1) The monthly retirement allowance payable to a retirant or beneficiary on or after September 30, 1976, who was on the rolls for April 1, 1978, is supplemented as follows: Effective Date of Retirement Percent Supplemented 10-1-76 10-1-77 July 1, 1975 to June 30, 1976 …

Sec. 20g. (1) After the end of each state fiscal year, the department of management and budget shall determine the rate of investment return earned on retirement system assets during the fiscal year, based upon methods established by the retirement board. (2) At the end of each s…

Sec. 20h. (1) Effective October 1, 1987, the monthly retirement allowance payable to a retirant or retirement allowance beneficiary whose retirement allowance effective date was before October 1, 1986, as recalculated pursuant to section 19(2) and 20(6), is supplemented as follow…

Sec. 20i. Upon his or her retirement as provided for in section 19j, beginning January 1, 2011, a member shall receive a supplement for 60 months to his or her retirement allowance payments equal to 1/60 of the amount forfeited in section 19j(3). The total amount of the supplemen…

Sec. 20j. (1) Beginning April 1, 2012, the calculation of a retirement allowance under this act for a member who did not make the election under section 50a shall include only the following items of credited service, as applicable: (a) The years and fraction of a year of credited…

Sec. 21. (1) Except as may be provided otherwise in sections 33 and 34, a member who becomes totally incapacitated for duty because of a personal injury or disease shall be retired, if all of the following apply: (a) The member, the member's personal representative or guardian, t…

Sec. 22. Upon retirement for disability, as provided in section 21, a member who has attained age 60 shall receive a service retirement allowance as provided for in section 20. Notwithstanding that he or she may not have 10 years of credited service, he or she shall be credited w…

Sec. 23. (1) Upon retirement for disability as provided in section 21, a member who is less than 60 years old shall receive a disability retirement allowance calculated under section 20(1). A disability retirement allowance payable under this subsection is payable beginning on th…

Sec. 24. (1) Except as may otherwise be provided in sections 33 and 34, a member who becomes totally incapacitated for duty because of a personal injury or disease that is not the natural and proximate result of the member's performance of duty may be retired if all of the follow…

Sec. 25. Upon retirement for disability, as provided in section 24, a member shall receive a retirement allowance computed in accordance with section 20(1). The retirement allowance or pension provided shall not be less than $600.00 per annum. Upon retirement, the member may elec…

Sec. 27. (1) Except as provided in subsections (3), (4), and (5), if a member dies as a result of a personal injury or disease arising out of and in the course of his or her employment with the state and the personal injury or disease resulting in death is found by the retirement…

Sec. 27a. (1) Beginning with retirement allowance payments due on or after June 1, 2004, retirement allowances granted under section 27 that began before the effective date of the amendatory act that added this section shall be adjusted as provided in this section. (2) Except as …

Sec. 28. Should a member cease to be an employee before attaining age 60 years, or after attaining such age but before becoming eligible for a retirement allowance, for any reason except his retirement or death, or should a member be granted military leave as prescribed by the ru…

Sec. 29. Should a member die before his service retirement becomes effective, the accumulated contributions standing to his credit in the employees' savings fund, at the time of his death, shall be paid, except as otherwise provided in this act, to such person or persons as he sh…

Sec. 3. (1) The retirement board shall consist of 9 members, as follows: (a) The insurance commissioner, the attorney general, the state treasurer, the deputy legislative auditor general, and the state personnel director. (b) Two employee members of the retirement system, who sha…