Sec. 5-158g. Effect on options.
Sec. 5-158g. Effect on options. Each state employee who elects, under the provisions of sections 5-158a to 5-158f, inclusive, to contribute to both Social Security and
full part A of the state employees retirement system and who has, in effect, an option
providing for his spouse, under the State Employees Retirement Act, shall be allowed,
upon written application to the Retirement Commission, prior to January 1, 1970, to
cancel or reduce or retain such option and such option, if cancelled, shall be of no force
or effect or shall have such effect as the reduced option provides. Upon the retirement
of a member who has cancelled or reduced such option under the provisions of this
section, his retirement salary shall be reduced by such amount or amounts, if any, as
the Retirement Commission shall determine as the actuarial equivalent of the value of
the protection for the amount of the retirement salary which would have been payable
to the spouse if the member had died between (1) the first date on which the spouse
would have been entitled to a retirement salary if the member had died on such date and
(2) the date of cancellation, or to the value of the excess of such protection over that
under the reduced option, as the case may be.
(1967, P.A. 637, S. 8; 1969, P.A. 542.)
History: 1969 act imposed January 1, 1970, deadline for cancelling or reducing spouse payment option and provided
means to calculate reduction of retirement salary necessitated by cancelling or reducing the option.