§ 41.40.005 Provisions applicable to “plan 1,” “plan 2,” and “plan 3.”
§ 41.40.010 Definitions
§ 41.40.015 Construction — Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships — 2009 c 521
§ 41.40.020 System created — Administration
§ 41.40.023 Membership
§ 41.40.025 Membership in system — Charter school employers and employees
§ 41.40.028 Nonelective position employees employed for at least nine months — Deemed in eligible position, when
§ 41.40.034 Purchase of additional service credit — Costs — Rules
§ 41.40.035 Service credit prohibited for certain members of committees, boards, and commissions and for certain appointive and elective officials
§ 41.40.037 Service by retirees — Break in employment requirement — Reduction of retirement allowance upon reemployment — Reestablishment of membership
§ 41.40.038 Duty disability retirement recipients — Continued service credit
§ 41.40.042 Members agree to deductions
§ 41.40.048 Employer’s contribution — Computation — Billing
§ 41.40.052 Exemption from taxation and judicial process — Exceptions — Assignability — Deductions authorized
§ 41.40.054 Disability retirement — Criminal conduct
§ 41.40.055 Penalty for false statements
§ 41.40.056 Establishment of service credit — Former employees — Employers admitted before July 23, 1995
§ 41.40.057 Establishment of service credit — Current and former employees — Employers admitted after July 23, 1995
§ 41.40.058 Transfer of service credit from statewide city employees’ retirement system
§ 41.40.059 Credit for service in Seattle’s police relief and pension fund system
§ 41.40.061 Credit for service in Seattle’s police relief and pension fund system — Terms and conditions
§ 41.40.062 Optional entry of system by political subdivisions or associations of political subdivisions — Procedure — School districts declared employers and eligible employees members of system — Exception
§ 41.40.068 Hearing prior to appeal — Required — Notice
§ 41.40.073 Hearing prior to appeal — Conduct of hearing
§ 41.40.078 Judicial review in accordance with administrative procedure act
§ 41.40.082 Appeal — No bond required
§ 41.40.088 Education employment — Service credit — Computation
§ 41.40.092 Transfer of cadet service credit to Washington state patrol retirement system
§ 41.40.0931 Death benefit — Course of employment as a police officer — Occupational disease or infection
§ 41.40.0932 Death benefit — Course of employment — Occupational disease or infection
§ 41.40.095 Transfer of membership from judicial retirement system
§ 41.40.096 Law enforcement officers — Dual membership — Plan 1 exception
§ 41.40.098 Transfer of former service from judicial retirement system
§ 41.40.102 Effect of certain accumulated vacation leave on retirement benefits
§ 41.40.103 Benefit calculation — Limitation
§ 41.40.104 Establishing, restoring service credit
§ 41.40.1041 Prior service for plan 2 or 3 members — One-half service credit
§ 41.40.105 Chapter not applicable to officers and employees of state convention and trade center
§ 41.40.108 Higher education classified employees — Membership in the public employees’ retirement system
§ 41.40.109 Retirement system employer — Termination of status
§ 41.40.111 Retirement system employer — Unit of government
§ 41.40.113 Public safety employees’ retirement system — Election — Membership
§ 41.40.124 Discontinuing judicial retirement account plan contributions — Additional benefit — One-time irrevocable election — Justices and judges
§ 41.40.127 Additional benefit for district or municipal court judges — One-time irrevocable election
§ 41.40.129 Emergency medical services employee of a consortium of local governments — Credit for service prior to July 27, 2003
§ 41.40.131 Purchase of life annuity benefit
§ 41.40.145 Provisions applicable to plan 1
§ 41.40.150 Termination of membership — Restoration of service credit
§ 41.40.160 Creditable service
§ 41.40.163 Purchase of service credit — Service at Washington State University
§ 41.40.170 Credit for military service
§ 41.40.175 Service credit for paid leave of absence — Application to elected officials of labor organizations
§ 41.40.180 Retirement — Length of service
§ 41.40.183 Annual increase amount — Legislature’s rights reserved — No additional increases after June 30, 2011
§ 41.40.185 Retirement allowances — Members retiring after February 25, 1972
§ 41.40.188 Retirement allowance — Options — Retirement allowance adjustment — Court-approved property settlement
§ 41.40.189 Retirement allowance — Adjustment eligibility
§ 41.40.190 Retirement allowance — In lieu of allowance provided in RCW 41.40.185
§ 41.40.191 Retirement allowance — Members with thirty years of service — Irrevocable election
§ 41.40.193 Dates upon which retirement allowances accrue
§ 41.40.197 Retirement allowance — Annual increases restricted after July 1, 2010 — Eligibility
§ 41.40.1971 Definition — “Beneficiary.”
§ 41.40.1984 Minimum retirement allowance — Annual adjustment — Persons who become beneficiaries after June 30, 1995
§ 41.40.1985 Permanent retirement allowance adjustment
§ 41.40.1986 Permanent increase for specified beneficiaries age seventy or over
§ 41.40.1987 Monthly benefit increase
§ 41.40.200 Retirement for disability in line of duty — Applicability to certain judges
§ 41.40.210 Duty disability retirement allowance for disability after age sixty
§ 41.40.220 Allowance on retirement for duty disability — Before sixty
§ 41.40.230 Nonduty disability — Applicability to certain judges
§ 41.40.235 Nonduty disability retirement allowance — Amount — Maximum — Death benefit
§ 41.40.250 Allowance on retirement for nonduty disability — Election
§ 41.40.260 Withdrawal from system — Refund of contributions — Waiver of allowance, when
§ 41.40.262 Elected officials — Restoration of withdrawn contributions
§ 41.40.270 Death before retirement or within sixty days following application for disability retirement — Military service — Payment of contributions to nominee, surviving spouse, or legal representative — Waiver of payment
§ 41.40.280 Department may withhold refunds of contributions
§ 41.40.300 Benefits offset by workers’ compensation or similar benefits
§ 41.40.310 Periodical examination of disability beneficiaries — Benefits upon resumption of gainful employment
§ 41.40.320 Disability beneficiary — Restoration to service
§ 41.40.330 Contributions
§ 41.40.363 Employer’s contributions — Labor guild, association or organization
§ 41.40.404 Justices or judges retirement allowance — In lieu of RCW 41.40.185
§ 41.40.408 District or municipal court judges retirement allowances — In lieu of RCW 41.40.185
§ 41.40.610 Provisions applicable to plan 2
§ 41.40.620 Computation of the retirement allowance
§ 41.40.625 Lump sum retirement allowance — Reentry — Conditions for reinstatement of service
§ 41.40.630 Retirement for service
§ 41.40.633 Member with terminal illness — Removal from system
§ 41.40.640 Post-retirement cost-of-living
§ 41.40.660 Options for payment of retirement allowances — Retirement allowance adjustment — Court-approved property settlement
§ 41.40.670 Earned disability allowance — Applicability to certain judges — Disposition upon death of recipient
§ 41.40.680 Application for and effective date of retirement allowances
§ 41.40.690 Suspension of retirement allowance upon reemployment — Exceptions — Reinstatement
§ 41.40.700 Death benefits
§ 41.40.710 Service credit for paid leave of absence, officers of labor organizations, unpaid leave of absence, military service
§ 41.40.720 Vested membership
§ 41.40.730 Refund of contributions
§ 41.40.740 Reentry
§ 41.40.748 Commercial vehicle enforcement officers — Limited optional transfer to Washington state patrol retirement system
§ 41.40.749 Certain commissioned officers — Limited optional transfer to Washington state patrol retirement system
§ 41.40.750 Transfer of membership and service credit — Restoration of contributions and service credit
§ 41.40.760 End of participation in judicial retirement account plan — Newly elected or appointed judges or justices
§ 41.40.763 End of participation in chapter 41.28 RCW — Newly elected or appointed judges
§ 41.40.767 Justices or judges retirement allowance — In lieu of RCW 41.40.620
§ 41.40.770 District or municipal court judges retirement allowance — In lieu of RCW 41.40.620
§ 41.40.780 Provisions applicable to plan 3 — Plan 3 elements
§ 41.40.785 Membership in plan 2 or plan 3 — Irrevocable choice — Default
§ 41.40.787 Right to waive benefit — Irrevocable choice
§ 41.40.790 Computation of retirement allowance
§ 41.40.795 Transfer period and basis — Additional transfer payment
§ 41.40.798 Higher education employees — Option to transfer to plan 3 — Limitation on supplemental benefits under RCW 28B.10.400
§ 41.40.801 Application for and effective date of retirement allowances
§ 41.40.805 Leaves of absence — Military service
§ 41.40.811 Purchased service credit — Allocation
§ 41.40.815 Lump sum payments — Reentry
§ 41.40.820 Retirement eligibility
§ 41.40.823 Member with terminal illness — Removal from system
§ 41.40.825 Disability allowance — Death of recipient
§ 41.40.830 Restored, purchased service credit under plan 2 — Transfer to plan 3
§ 41.40.835 Death benefits
§ 41.40.840 Postretirement cost-of-living
§ 41.40.845 Options for payment of retirement allowances — Court-approved property settlement
§ 41.40.850 Suspension of retirement allowance upon reemployment — Exception — Reinstatement
§ 41.40.870 Discontinuing judicial retirement account plan contributions — Additional benefit — One-time irrevocable election — Justices and judges
§ 41.40.873 Additional benefit for district or municipal court judges — One-time irrevocable election
§ 41.40.877 Justices or judges retirement allowance — In lieu of RCW 41.40.790
§ 41.40.880 District or municipal court judges retirement allowance — In lieu of RCW 41.40.790
§ 41.40.920 Effective date — 1977 ex.s. c 295
§ 41.40.930 Benefits not contractual right until March 1, 2002
§ 41.40.931 Effective dates — 2000 c 247
§ 41.40.932 Subchapter headings not law — 2000 c 247
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 41.40 - Washington public employees' retirement system

  • Accumulated contributions: means the sum of all contributions standing to the credit of a member in the member's individual account, including any amount paid under RCW 41. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Actuarial equivalent: means a benefit of equal value when computed upon the basis of such mortality and other tables as may be adopted by the director. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • actuary: means the person appointed pursuant to RCW 44. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • 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.
  • Annual increase: means , initially, fifty-nine cents per month per year of service which amount shall be increased each July 1st by three percent, rounded to the nearest cent. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Annuity: means payments for life derived from accumulated contributions of a member. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • 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.
  • Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. Source: OCC
  • Department: means the department of retirement systems created in chapter 41. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Director: means the director of the department. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Eligible position: means :
Washington Code 41.40.010
  • employed: means a person who is providing services for compensation to an employer, unless the person is free from the employer's direction and control over the performance of work. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Final compensation: means the annual rate of compensation earnable by a member at the time of termination of employment. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • 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.
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • government contractor: is a ny entity, including a partnership, limited liability company, for-profit or nonprofit corporation, or person, that provides services pursuant to a contract with an "employer. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Index: means , for any calendar year, that year's annual average consumer price index, Seattle, Washington area, for urban wage earners and clerical workers, all items, compiled by the bureau of labor statistics, United States department of labor. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • 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.
  • Leave of absence: means the period of time a member is authorized by the employer to be absent from service without being separated from membership. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Member: means any employee included in the membership of the retirement system, as provided for in RCW 41. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Membership service: means :
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  • New member: means a person who becomes a member on or after April 1, 1949, except as otherwise provided in this section. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Pension: means payments for life derived from contributions made by the employer. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
  • Prior service: means all service of an original member rendered to any employer prior to October 1, 1947. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Regular interest: means such rate as the director may determine. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • 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.
  • Retiree: means any person who has begun accruing a retirement allowance or other benefit provided by this chapter resulting from service rendered to an employer while a member. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance as provided by this chapter. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Retirement allowance: means the sum of the annuity and the pension. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Retirement system: means the public employees' retirement system provided for in this chapter. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Service credit month: means a month or an accumulation of months of service credit which is equal to one. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Service credit year: means an accumulation of months of service credit which is equal to one when divided by twelve. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State elective position: means any position held by any person elected or appointed to statewide office or elected or appointed as a member of the legislature. See Washington Code 41.40.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Totally incapacitated for duty: means total inability to perform the duties of a member's employment or office or any other work for which the member is qualified by training or experience. See Washington Code 41.40.010