N.Y. Education Law 514 – Benefits to participants in old retirement fund
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§ 514. Benefits to participants in old retirement fund. All annuities of annuitants on the rolls of the retirement fund on the thirty-first day of July, nineteen hundred twenty-one, shall be paid thereafter from the pension accumulation fund created by this article. The amount of the annuity of any annuitant on the rolls of such retirement fund, at such time, who retired on a full annuity shall be not less than one-half of his final average salary, and not less than four hundred dollars per annum; nor shall the allowance of any annuitant on such roll retired from disability be less than a proportionate amount of such minima based on the annuitant's years of service.
Terms Used In N.Y. Education Law 514
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Annuity: shall mean the annual payments for life derived from contributions made by contributor as provided in this article. See N.Y. Education Law 501
- Final average salary: shall mean the average annual compensation earnable as a teacher during the five years of service immediately preceding his date of retirement, or it shall mean the average annual compensation earnable as a teacher during any five consecutive years of state service, said five years to be selected by the applicant prior to date of retirement. See N.Y. Education Law 501
- Pension: shall mean the annual payments for life derived from payments made by an employer as provided in this article. See N.Y. Education Law 501
- Retirement fund: shall mean the state teachers' retirement fund for public school teachers of the state of New York as created by chapter one hundred forty of the laws of nineteen hundred ten, chapter four hundred forty-nine of the laws of nineteen hundred eleven, chapter forty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred fourteen, chapter one hundred three of the laws of nineteen hundred nineteen and chapter one hundred sixty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty-three. See N.Y. Education Law 501
- Service: shall mean actual teaching or supervision by the teacher during regular school hours of the day, and shall mean governmental service in the state of New York in another capacity where the teacher was a member of the New York state employees retirement system, and where such service was credited to the teacher in the said New York state employees retirement system. See N.Y. Education Law 501