Ohio Administrative Code

11.15 PDF: (A) For the purpose of section 145.293 of the Revised Code "comparable position" means a comparable public position that, if it had been performed for an Ohio public employer, would have been covered by an Ohio state retirement system.(B) A member shall have at least t…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies section 145.30 of the Revised Code.(B) Definitions(1) "Maintained membership" means any of the following:(a) The member's contributions remained with the public employees retirement system during the military service;(b) The member's accumulated…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies sections 145.301 and 145.302 of the Revised Code.(B) The member shall submit report(s) of separation (form DD214) or other satisfactory documentation to the public employees retirement system as evidence of the member's military service, active …

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies section 145.201 of the Revised Code.(B) (1) For contributing service that occurred prior to January 1, 2014, "full-time service" does not include service computed as part-time pursuant to section 145.016 of the Revised Code. For contributing ser…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies section 145.299 of the Revised Code.(B) (1) The member shall submit a written request that shall include a certification of the service on a form provided by the public employees retirement system.(2) A member shall purchase credit for such serv…

11.15 PDF: (A) (1) For service which would have been covered by Chapter 145. of the Revised Code, but was exempted, a member shall make a request to purchase credit for this service on a form provided by the public employees retirement system.(2) The employer for which the servic…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies section 145.37 of the Revised Code and applies to members who retire with an effective date of retirement on or after February 1, 2013.(B) For the purpose of this rule:(1) "State retirement system" and "retention percentage" have the same meanin…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies sections 145.295 and 145.2913 of the Revised Code.(B) Any payments made by a member to purchase credit pursuant to section 145.295 or 145.2913 of the Revised Code shall not be refunded to a member except as authorized or required under those sec…

11.15 PDF: For the purpose of section 145.292 of the Revised Code, a member shall have at least twelve months of contributing service for purposes of the calculation described in rules 145-2-02 and 145-3-23 of the Administrative Code. Last updated October 17, 2023 at 10:14 AM Aut…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies section 145.291 of the Revised Code.(B) A member can purchase service credit for a leave of absence period that occurred during a period of contributing service for which the member received a refund of contributions pursuant to section 145.40 o…

11.15 PDF: Service credit that is purchased or obtained under section 145.295, 145.2911, 145.2913, 145.301, or 145.302 of the Revised Code that is, or is considered to be the equivalent of, Ohio service credit, shall be used in determining eligibility for a benefit as provided in…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies sections 145.2910, 145.2911, and 145.2912 of the Revised Code.(B) "Eligible service credit" means service earned under this system or the Cincinnati retirement system or military service credit purchased or obtained in this system or the Cincinn…

11.15 PDF: (A) For purposes of this rule and section 145.2914 of the Revised Code:(1) "Law enforcement service credit" means service earned as a PERS law enforcement officer, as defined in section 145.01 of the Revised Code.(2) "Public safety service credit" means service credit …

11.15 PDF: A firefighter employed before May 1, 1991, who is or becomes a member of the public employees retirement system on May 1, 1991, may purchase firefighter service before May 1, 1991 for any year of non-contributing service as a firefighter not covered by an approved exem…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies section 145.814 of the Revised Code and sections 2.03, 2.04, and 6.01 of the combined and member-directed plan documents.(B) For each member participating in the traditional pension plan who elects under division (D) of section 145.814 of the Re…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies section 145.195 of the Revised Code.(B) Pursuant to the authority specified in section 145.195 of the Revised Code, for retirement effective dates on or after July 1, 2025, members who have service credit in both the traditional pension plan and…

11.15 PDF: (A) For the purpose of sections 145.35, 145.36, 145.361, 145.362, and 145.37 of the Revised Code and agency 145 of the Administrative Code:(1) "Disability" means a presumed permanent mental or physical incapacity for the performance of the member's present or most rece…

11.15 PDF: (A) The public employees retirement system shall notify, by regular mail, the member and the member's last employer reporting to the retirement system or other retirement system, as applicable, of an approval or denial of an application for a disability benefit.(B) The…

11.15 PDF: (A) Except as provided in this paragraph, this rule applies when an application for a disability benefit filed pursuant to section 145.35 of the Revised Code is denied or a disability benefit pursuant to section 145.362 of the Revised Code is terminated due to the reci…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies section 145.37 of the Revised Code.(B) "Paying system" shall have the same meaning as defined in section 145.37 of the Revised Code.(C) As used in this rule, "last date of service" means the last day of compensated service, either for a day work…

11.15 PDF: (A) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (A)(3) of this rule, on or before April fifteenth of each year, a disability benefit recipient shall file a statement with the public employees retirement system providing information including, but not limited to: work performed…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule amplifies section 145.431 of the Revised Code.(B) A member may designate a beneficiary on a form provided by the public employees retirement system. The designation applies to all retirement plans in which the member has contributions on deposit prior to …

11.15 PDF: Where dependency as defined in division (A) of section 145.43 of the Revised Code is required for eligibility of benefits pursuant to section 145.43 or 145.45 of the Revised Code, a beneficiary shall file a copy of the deceased member's federal income tax return for th…

11.15 PDF: For purposes of determining the interest credited to a deceased member's account under section 145.471 of the Revised Code, interest shall be earned through the last day of the month prior to the first payment to a beneficiary under section 145.43 of the Revised Code. …

11.15 PDF: In the absence of a valid marriage certificate, the public employees retirement board will accept only a decision rendered by a court, having jurisdiction in the state in which the member was domiciled at the time of death, that the relationship constituted a valid mar…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule applies to the payment of a benefit to a surviving spouse who has not attained age sixty-five and who elects, pursuant to division (A) of section 145.45 of the Revised Code, to defer receipt of such benefit.(B) (1) The benefit shall be calculated as if pa…

11.15 PDF: (A) As used in this rule:(1) "Law enforcement officer" has the same meaning as in rule 145-2-39 of the Administrative Code.(2) "Killed in the line of duty" has the same meaning as in section 145.45 of the Revised Code.(B) For purposes of determining the eligibility of …

11.15 PDF: (A) Definitions(1) "Law enforcement officer" means a member described in division (YY) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code.(2) "Law enforcement service" means service as a law enforcement officer or public safety officer.(3) "Non-law enforcement service" means servic…

11.15 PDF: (A) As used in this rule, "retirement allowance" has the same meaning as defined in section 145.333 of the Revised Code.(B) If a retirement allowance is reduced under section 145.333 of the Revised Code, the reduced retirement allowance shall become the member's single…

11.15 PDF: (A) For the purpose of this rule:(1) "Effective benefit date" means the first day of the month immediately following the latest of the following:(a) The last day for which compensation was paid; (b) The attainment of minimum age or service credit eligibility provided u…

11.15 PDF: (A) A member or contributor who makes a deposit for an additional annuity pursuant to section 145.62 of the Revised Code shall remit the first deposit with a form provided by the public employees retirement system. The retirement system shall not accept a payment for l…

11.15 PDF: (A) A contributor who is married at the time of retirement under section 145.32, 145.33, 145.331, 145.332, 145.335, 145.37, or 145.46 of the Revised Code, section 9.02 of the combined plan document, or section 9.02 of the member-directed plan document, or at the time b…

11.15 PDF: (A) Benefits available under section 145.331 of the Revised Code shall be effective as provided in that section.(B) A disability benefit recipient who applies for retirement under section 145.331 of the Revised Code shall select a plan of payment and designate a benefi…

11.15 PDF: Unless a court order specifically requires a member to allocate to the member's former spouse less than ten per cent of the member's monthly retirement allowance, the portion of a retirement allowance that continues after death to a member's surviving beneficiary pursu…

11.15 PDF: (A) Section 145.46 of the Revised Code as effective January 7, 2013, renames the plans of payment available under sections 145.32, 145.33, 145.335, 145.332, and 145.46 and former section 145.34 of the Revised Code. For purposes of Chapter 145. of the Revised Code and C…

11.15 PDF: (A) Except as provided in paragraph (G) of this rule, a designation of beneficiary may be changed after commencement of benefits under section 145.64 of the Revised Code when the contributor is receiving benefits under the single-life plan.(B) When a contributor is rec…

11.15 PDF: (A) Definitions(1) "Law enforcement officer" means a member described in division (YY) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code.(2) "Law enforcement service" means service as a law enforcement officer or public safety officer.(3) "Non-law enforcement service" means servic…

11.15 PDF: The public employees retirement board shall, based on the recommendation of the board's actuary, establish the percentage rate for the reductions described in division (A)(2) of section 145.33 of the Revised Code and division (B)(2) of section 145.335 of the Revised Co…

11.15 PDF: Benefits available pursuant to section 145.32, 145.33, 145.332, 145.335, 145.43, 145.45 or 145.46 of the Revised Code shall be effective the first day of the month immediately following the latest of the following:(A) For a member:(1) The last date for which compensati…

11.15 PDF: For purposes of division (A)(2) of section 145.40 of the Revised Code, "eligible for age and service retirement" means a contributor is eligible for a retirement benefit under section 145.32, 145.33, 145.331, or 145.332 of the Revised Code on or before the first of the…

11.15 PDF: (A) As used in this rule, "alternate payee" has the same meaning as in section 3105.80 of the Revised Code.(B) A benefit recipient who has received an allowance for at least twelve months shall have such allowance increased pursuant to section 145.323 of the Revised Co…

11.15 PDF: (A) As used in this rule:(1) "Eligible contributions" means amounts contributed by a member under section 145.47 of the Revised Code and, if applicable, the amounts paid by the member to purchase or restore service credit under section 145.302 or 145.31 of the Revised …

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule shall apply only to the death benefit payable pursuant to section 145.451 of the Revised Code.(B) A retirant or a disability benefit recipient may designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries to receive only the death benefit payment.(1) Such designation must…

11.15 PDF: The public employees retirement board shall set the annual interest rate to be credited to contributor accounts pursuant to division (A) of section 145.473 of the Revised Code. Last updated October 17, 2023 at 10:24 AM Authorized By: 145.09. Amplifies: 145.473. Five Ye…

11.15 PDF: The portion of the lesser amount continuing after death to two, three, or four surviving beneficiaries designated at the time of a member's retirement or at the time of commencement of a contributor's benefit under section 145.384 or 145.64 of the Revised Code shall be…

11.15 PDF: (A) This rule applies to a retirant or contributor who elects a plan of payment under which a portion of the contributor's benefit continues, after the death of the contributor, to two, three, or four surviving beneficiaries. Amounts due to a retirant or contributor re…

11.15 PDF: If, at the time of retirement or at the time of commencement of a benefit under section 145.384 or 145.64 of the Revised Code, a member or contributor is subject to more than one court order issued under section 3105.171 or 3105.65 of the Revised Code, or the laws of a…