Texas § GV.852.108 - RESUMPTION OF SERVICE WITH SAME EMPLOYER BY RETIREE

§ GV.852.108. RESUMPTION OF SERVICE WITH SAME EMPLOYER BY RETIREE

RESUMPTION OF SERVICE WITH SAME EMPLOYER BY RETIREE. (a) In this section and Sections 852.1085 and 852.109 , a person's reemploying municipality is the municipality for which the person most recently performed creditable service before the person's retirement with respect to the person's particular individual account under this subtitle. (b) Except as provided by Section 852.1085 , a person who has retired with a service retirement benefit under this subtitle and later becomes an employee of the person's reemploying municipality also becomes a member of the system on the date of employment, but credits and benefits allowable to the person under this subtitle are limited as provided by this section. (b-1) Unless subject to Subsection (c), the retirement annuity of a person subject to this section is not suspended. (c) If a person becomes an employee of the person's reemploying municipality at any time during the 12 consecutive months after the effective date of the person's last retirement from the reemploying municipality, the retirement system shall discontinue and suspend the full amount of the monthly payments of the service retirement annuity that is allowed because of the person's previous retirement from the reemploying municipality beginning with the month the retirement system determines that the person has again become an employee of the reemploying municipality. After the suspension and except as provided by Subsection (j), the retirement system may not make payments of the annuity for any month during which the person remains an employee of the reemploying municipality. The suspension of a benefit under this section does not suspend payment of a benefit to an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order. (d) Member contributions under Section 855.402 shall be made on all compensation paid to the employee by the reemploying municipality at the same rate as is required of other employees of the department. The retirement system shall credit the contributions on receipt to the member's individual account and shall credit the account with interest annually at the same rate and manner as the accounts of other members are credited. The compensation paid to the employee by the reemploying municipality shall be included in computing the monthly contributions the municipality makes to the benefit accumulation fund. (e) After termination of employment with the reemploying municipality and after filing of an application for resumption of retirement with the board of trustees, a person described by Subsection (c) is entitled to receive future payments of the suspended annuity, as provided by Subsection (f), and to the additional benefits as provided by Subsections (g), (h), (i), and (j). (f) Monthly payments of an annuity suspended under Subsection (c) shall resume effective beginning with the month following the month in which employment is terminated with the reemploying municipality, without change in the amount except for any increase allowed under Section 854.203 or the duration of or another condition pertaining to the suspended benefit. Except as provided by Subsection (j), payment of the resumed benefit may not be made for any month during which the payment was suspended under this section. (g) If a person with credited service under this section dies before a payment under Subsection (i) is made, the person's beneficiary, or if there is no beneficiary surviving, the executor or administrator of the person's estate, may elect payment as provided by Section 854.105 . (h) The additional service retirement benefit allowable to a person to whom this section applies is, at the option of that person, either: (1) a refund of accumulated contributions made since reemployment plus any accrued interest on the accumulated contributions allowed by the retirement system; or (2) a benefit consisting of: (A) a basic annuity actuarially determined from the sum of the member's contributions made and accumulated since the date the person last became a member, together with interest accumulated on that amount since the person last became a member and an amount from the benefit accumulation fund equal to the amount of the member's contributions credited to the member's individual account since the person last became a member together with interest accrued on that amount since the person last became a member; or (B) a greater amount authorized by the municipality under Section 855.501 . (i) The additional benefit described by Subsection (h)(2) is payable as a standard service retirement benefit or, at the election of the member, any optional benefit authorized under this subtitle that is the actuarial equivalent of the standard retirement benefit. The first benefit payment date under this subsection is the later of the end of the month following the last month of employment or the end of the month following the month in which the person files an application for payment. The first payment may not be made if the person has resumed employment with the reemploying municipality in a position that would make the person an employee. (j) Subject to Subsection (m), a person who resumed employment with the person's reemploying municipality before September 1, 2021, shall receive a lump-sum payment in an amount equal to the sum of the service retirement annuity payments the person would have received had the person's annuity payments not been discontinued and suspended under this section as it existed on the date the person resumed employment with the reemploying municipality, if the person: (1) initially retired based on a bona fide termination of employment; and (2) resumed employment with the person's reemploying municipality at least eight years after the effective date of the person's retirement. (k) If the annuity payments of a person who resumed employment with the person's reemploying municipality before September 1, 2021, were discontinued and suspended under this section as it existed on the date the person resumed employment with the reemploying municipality and the person has not terminated employment with the reemploying municipality, then on filing of a written application with the retirement system, the retirement system shall, subject to Subsection (l), resume making the annuity payments to the person, provided: (1) the person's retirement that preceded the resumption of employment was based on a bona fide termination of employment; and (2) the person did not become an employee of the person's reemploying municipality at any time during the 12 consecutive months after the effective date of the person's retirement described by Subdivision (1). (l) Monthly payments of an annuity resumed under Subsection (k) shall resume effective beginning with the month following the month in which the written application is approved by the retirement system, without change in the amount except for any increase allowed under Section 854.203 or the duration of or another condition pertaining to the suspended benefit. Except as provided by Subsection (j), payment of the resumed benefit may not be made for any month during which the payment was suspended under this section as it existed on the date the person resumed employment with the reemploying municipality. (m) At the time a person resumes receiving payment of an annuity under Subsection (k), the retirement system shall pay the person any lump-sum payment owed to the person under Subsection (j). (n) The board of trustees may adopt rules to implement this section. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1876, ch. 453, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981. Formerly