Title 71, STATE GOVERNMENT

(a) Contributions on behalf of active members.--The Commonwealth and other employers whose employees are members of the system or participants in the plan shall make contributions to the fund on behalf of all active members in such amounts as shall be certified by the board as ne…

(a) Employer contribution rate on behalf of active members.--For each fiscal year, the amount of the Commonwealth and other employer contributions on behalf of all active members shall be computed by the actuary as a percentage of the total compensation of all active members duri…

(a) Authorization.--The board and the head of department of an eligible employer of members of the system may enter into an agreement by which the eligible employer agrees to make one lump sum payment of all or a part of the eligible employer's portion of the present value of fut…

(a) Annual submission of budget.--The board shall prepare and submit annually an itemized budget consisting of the amounts necessary to be appropriated by the Commonwealth out of the General Fund and special operating funds and the amounts to be assessed the other employers requi…

Any member upon termination of service may, in lieu of all benefits payable from the system under this chapter to which he may be entitled, elect to receive his total accumulated deductions by his required beginning date. (Dec. 28, 2015, P.L.529, No.93, eff. imd.; June 12, 2017, …

When an employee of the Juvenile Court Judges' Commission elects membership in an independent retirement program pursuant to section 5301(f) (relating to mandatory and optional membership in the system and participation in the plan), the board shall transfer directly to the trust…

(a) General rule.--Any full coverage member who is eligible to receive an annuity pursuant to the provisions of section 5308(a) or (b) (relating to eligibility for annuities) who terminates State service, or if a multiple service member who is a school employee who is an active m…

(a) General rule.--A joint coverage member who is eligible to receive an annuity under section 5308(a) or (b) (relating to eligibility for annuities) shall be entitled to receive the annuity provided for in sections 5702 (relating to maximum single life annuity) and 5708 (relatin…

(a) Amount of annuity.--A member who has made application for a disability annuity and has been found to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of section 5905(c)(1) (relating to duties of the board regarding applications and elections of members and participants) shall re…

(a) General rule.--Any special vestee, vestee or any other member upon termination of State service who is eligible to receive an annuity as provided in section 5308(a) or (b) (relating to eligibility for annuities) may apply for and elect to receive either a maximum single life …

Any superannuation or withdrawal annuitant who: (1) has Class A-3, Class A-4, Class A-5 or Class A-6 service credit; (2) has service credited in one or more classes of service; and (3) because he has five or more, but fewer than ten, eligibility points is not eligible to receive …

(a) General rule.-- (1) If the annuitant returns to State service or enters or has entered school service and elects multiple service membership, any annuity payable to him under this part shall cease effective upon the date of his return to State service or entering school servi…

(a) Members eligible for annuities.--Any active member, inactive member, vestee or current or former State employee performing USERRA leave who dies and was eligible for an annuity in accordance with section 5308(a) or (b) (relating to eligibility for annuities) or special vestee…

(a) General rule.--Every annuitant who retired prior to July 1, 1978 and who is in receipt of a superannuation, withdrawal or disability annuity, shall continue to receive the annuity to which he was entitled prior to July 1, 1979 and beginning July 1, 1979, any annuitant retirin…

(a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after July 1, 1984, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive an additional monthly supplemental annuity from the State Employees' Retirement System. (b) Amount of additional supplemental annuity.-…

(a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after January 1, 1989, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive a further additional monthly supplemental annuity from the system. This shall be in addition to the supplemental annuities provided …

(a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after July 1, 1994, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive a further additional monthly supplemental annuity from the system. This shall be in addition to the supplemental annuities provided for…

(a) Eligibility.--An annuitant who: (1) retired after February 28, 1974, and before January 1, 1985; (2) has military service as set forth in section 5304(c)(1) or (2) (relating to creditable nonstate service); (3) is receiving or will receive retirement pay under 10 U.S.C. Ch. 6…

(a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after June 30, 1998, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive a supplemental monthly annuity from the system. This shall be in addition to the supplemental annuities provided for in sections 5708 …

(a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after July 1, 2002, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive an additional monthly supplemental annuity from the system. This shall be in addition to the supplemental annuities provided for in sec…

(a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after July 1, 2003, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive an additional monthly supplemental annuity from the system. This shall be in addition to the supplemental annuities provided for in sec…

(a) Benefits.--Commencing with the first monthly annuity payment after June 30, 2002, any eligible benefit recipient shall be entitled to receive a special supplemental postretirement adjustment in the form of an adjustment to the monthly annuity payable from the system. This sha…

(a) Annuities.--Any annuity granted under the provisions of this part and paid from the fund shall be paid in equal monthly installments. (b) Death benefits.--If the amount of a death benefit payable from the fund to a beneficiary of a member under section 5707 (relating to death…

No payment provided for in this part shall be reduced on account of any other benefits, now or hereafter provided for, under any workmen's compensation law or any other law, except as otherwise herein provided.

(a) State Employees' Defined Contribution Plan.--The State Employees' Defined Contribution Plan is established. The board shall administer and manage the plan which shall be a defined contribution plan exclusively for the benefit of those State employees who participate in the pl…

The board shall set forth the terms and provisions of the plan and trust in a document containing the terms and conditions of the plan and in a trust declaration that shall be published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Any amendments to the plan and trust declaration also shall be p…

The board shall establish in the trust an individual investment account for each participant in the plan. All contributions by a participant or an employer for or on behalf of a participant shall be credited to the participant's individual investment account, together with all in…

(a) Mandatory contributions.--A participant who did not make the election under section 5306.5 (relating to election by active members to become a Class A-5 member, Class A-6 member or plan participant) shall make mandatory pickup participant contributions through payroll deducti…

(a) Treatment for purposes of IRC § 414(h).--The contributions to the trust required to be made under section 5804(a) (relating to participant contributions) with respect to State service rendered by an active participant shall be picked up by the Commonwealth or other employer a…

(a) Contributions for service.--The Commonwealth or other employer of an active participant shall make employer defined contributions for service of an active participant that shall be credited to the active participant's individual investment account. Employer defined contributi…

(a) Termination of service.--A participant who terminates State service shall be eligible to withdraw the vested accumulated total defined contributions standing to the participant's credit in the participant's individual investment account or a lesser amount as the participant m…

(a) General rule.--In the event of the death of an active participant or inactive participant, the board shall pay to the participant's beneficiary the vested balance in the participant's individual investment account in a lump sum or in such other manner as the board may establi…

(a) Participant and voluntary contributions.--Subject to the forfeiture and attachment provisions of section 5953 (relating to taxation, attachment and assignment of funds) or otherwise as provided by law, a participant shall be vested immediately with respect to all mandatory pi…

(a) Return to State service.-- (1) A participant receiving distributions or an inactive participant who returns to State service shall cease receiving distributions and shall not be eligible to receive distributions until the participant subsequently terminates State service, wit…

The board, in addition to its powers and duties set forth in Chapter 59 (relating to administration, funds, accounts, general provisions), shall have the following powers and duties to establish the plan and trust and administer the provisions of this chapter and part: (1) The bo…

The board, the Commonwealth, an employer or other political subdivision shall not be responsible for any investment or other loss incurred under the plan or for the failure of any investment to earn any specific or expected return or to earn as much as any other investment opport…

(a) Investment by participant.--All contributions, interest and investment earnings shall be invested based on a participant's investment allocation choices, provided that the board may provide for a default investment option. All investment allocation choices shall be credited p…

All fees, costs and expenses of establishing and administering the plan and the trust and investing the assets of the trust shall be borne by the participants and paid from assessments against the balances of the individual investment accounts as established by the board, except …

(a) Required distributions.--All payments under this chapter shall start and be made in compliance with the required beginning date, minimum distribution requirements and incidental death benefit rules of IRC § 401(a). (b) Limitations.--The following shall apply: (1) (i) Except a…

(a) Status and membership.--The board shall be an independent administrative board and consist of 11 members: the State Treasurer, ex officio, the Secretary of Banking and Securities, ex officio, two Senators, two members of the House of Representatives and five members appointed…

(a) Employees.-- (1) Effective 30 days after the effective date of this paragraph, the positions of secretary, assistant secretary and investment professional shall be placed under the unclassified service provisions of the act of August 5, 1941 (P.L.752, No.286), known as the Ci…

(a) Manual of regulations.--The board shall, with the advice of the Attorney General and the actuary, prepare and provide, within 90 days of the effective date of this part, a manual incorporating rules and regulations consistent with the provisions of this part to the heads of d…

(a) Multiple service membership of State employees.--Upon receipt of an application for membership in the system of a State employee who is a former public school employee and who has elected multiple service membership, the board shall advise the Public School Employees' Retirem…

(a) Statement to new members.--As soon as practicable after each member shall have become an active member in the system, the board shall issue to the member notice of any election of class of service membership he may be eligible to make, a statement certifying his class of serv…

(a) General rule.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, whenever a member elects to withdraw his total accumulated deductions pursuant to section 5311(a) (relating to eligibility for refunds) or 5701 (relating to return of total accumulated deductions) or elects to r…

(a) Status of members and participants.--The head of department shall, at the end of each pay period, notify the board in a manner prescribed by the board of salary changes effective during that period for any members and participants of the department, the date of all removals f…