Terms Used In South Carolina Code > Title 1 > Chapter 11 > Article 5 - Employees and Retirees Insurance-Accounting for Post-Employment Benefits

• Actuarial accrued liability: means that portion, as determined by a particular actuarial cost method, of the actuarial present value of fund obligations and administrative expenses which is not provided for by future normal costs. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Actuarial assumptions: means assumptions regarding the occurrence of future events affecting costs of the SCRHI Trust Fund or LTDI Trust Fund such as mortality, withdrawal, disability, and retirement; changes in compensation; aging effects and cost trends for post-employment benefits; benefit election rates; rates of investment earnings and asset appreciation or depreciation; procedures used to determine the actuarial value of assets; and other such relevant items. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Actuarial cost method: means a method for determining the actuarial present value of the obligations and administrative expenses of the SCRHI Trust Fund or LTDI Trust Fund and for developing an actuarially equivalent allocation of such value to time periods, usually in the form of a normal cost and an actuarial-accrued liability. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Actuarial valuation: means the determination, as of a valuation date, of the normal cost, actuarial accrued liability, actuarial value of assets, and related actuarial present values for the SCRHI Trust Fund or LTDI Trust Fund. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Actuarially sound: means that calculated contributions to the SCRHI Trust Fund or LTDI Trust Fund are sufficient to pay the full actuarial cost of these trust funds. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Administrative expenses: means all expenses incurred in the operation of the SCRHI Trust Fund and LTDI Trust Fund, including all investment expenses. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Agency: means an authority, board, branch, commission, committee, department, division, or other instrumentality of the executive department of state government, including administrative bodies and bodies corporate and politic established as an instrumentality of the State. See South Carolina Code 1-6-10
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Board: means the Board of Directors of the South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• EIP: means the office of the South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority designated by the board to operate insurance programs pursuant to this article. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Employee: includes an individual who contracts with an agency for personal services. See South Carolina Code 1-6-10
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• IBNR: means unpaid health claims incurred but not reported. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• LTDI Trust Fund: means the Long Term Disability Insurance Trust Fund established pursuant to § 1-11-707 to fund benefits under the state's Basic Long Term Disability (BLTD) Income Benefit Plan. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Operating account: means the health insurance program's business operating activities account maintained by the State Treasurer in which are deposited all premiums for enrollees in self-funded health plans authorized in this article, along with employer contributions for active employees covered by such self-funded health plans, and from which claims and administrative expenses of the self-funded health and dental plans administered by the employee insurance program are paid. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means :
  
  (a) an individual, labor union and organization, joint apprenticeship committee, partnership, association, corporation, legal representative, mutual company, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, or other legal or commercial entity located in part or in whole in the State or doing business in the State;
  
  (b) the State and any agency or local subdivision of an agency; or
  
  (c) a political subdivision. See South Carolina Code 1-6-10
• Political subdivision: includes a county, city, municipality, town, village, township, district, authority, special purpose district, school district, other local government entity, or other public corporation or entity whether organized and existing under charter or general law. See South Carolina Code 1-6-10
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• SCRHI Trust Fund: means the South Carolina Retiree Health Insurance Trust Fund established pursuant to § 1-11-705 to fund the employer cost for health benefits for retired state employees and retired public school district employees. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• State health and dental plans: means any insurance program administered by the employee insurance program pursuant to this article. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• State Retirement Systems: means all retirement systems established pursuant to Title 9 except for the National Guard Retirement System. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• State-covered entity: means state agencies and institutions, however described, and school districts. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trust fund paid premiums: means the employer premium for state health and dental plans coverage paid by the SCRHI Trust Fund on behalf of a retiree. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unfunded actuarial accrued liability: means for any actuarial valuation the excess of the actuarial accrued liability over the actuarial value of the assets of the fund under an actuarial cost method utilized by the fund for funding purposes. See South Carolina Code 1-11-703