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(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, a retired magistrate who is recalled and assigned to temporary service as a senior magistrate by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals may receive per diem compensation pursuant to the requirements of 50-1-6a of this code while continuing to receive his or her annuity. calendar years, service credit of one month shall be awarded for each 10 days employed in the interim between regular sessions, which interim days shall be cumulatively calculated so that any 10 days, regardless of calendar month or year, shall be calculated toward any award of one month of service credit; (2) Except for hourly employees, and those persons who first become members of the retirement system on or after July 1, 2015, 10 or more months of service credit earned in any calendar year shall be credited as a year of service: , That no more than one year of service may be credited to any member for all service rendered by him or her in any calendar year and no days may be carried over by a member from one calendar year to another calendar year where the member has received a full-year credit for that year; and. (g) Notwithstanding the provisions of 5-10-27b of this code, any publicly elected member of the legislative body of any political subdivision or of the State Legislature, the Clerk of the House of Delegates, and the Clerk of the Senate may elect to commence receiving in-service retirement distributions from this system upon attaining the age of 70 and one-half years: Provided, That the member is eligible to retire under the provisions of 5-10-20 or 5-10-21 of this code: Provided, however, That the member elects to stop actively contributing to the system while receiving the in-service distributions. Certification of employment for a complete legislative session and for interim days shall be determined by the clerk of the house in which the employee served, based upon employment records. The Legislature further finds and declares that it has the need for qualified employees and that in many cases an employee of the Legislature will retire and be available to return to work for the Legislature as a per diem employee. Contact: Retirement Benefits Contact: Electronic Payments Division Consolidated Public Retirement Board West Virginia State Auditor's Office 1.800.654.4406 1.800.500.4079. Civilian employees of the West Virginia State Police are members of the Public . (h) The board of trustees shall grant service credit to any former or present member of the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund who has been a contributing member of this system for more than three years for service previously credited by the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund if the member transfers all of his or her contributions to the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund to the system created in this article, including repayment of any amounts withdrawn any time from the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund by the member seeking the transfer allowed in this subsection: Provided, That there shall be added by the member to the amounts transferred or repaid under this subsection an amount which shall be sufficient to equal the contributions he or she would have made had the member been under the Public Employees Retirement System during the period of his or her membership in the State Police Death, Disability and Retirement Fund, excluding contributions on lump sum payment for annual leave, plus interest at a rate determined by the board. (g) (1) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the, and the service credit requirements set forth in this section shall be applied retroactively to all periods of legislative employment prior to the passage of this section, including any periods of legislative employment occurring before the. By Senators Trump, Weld, Nelson, and Jeffries, [Originating in the Committee on Pensions; reported on February 16, 2023]. (g) Notwithstanding the provisions of 5-10-27b of this code, any publicly elected member of the legislative body of any political subdivision or of the State Legislature, the Clerk of the House of Delegates, and the Clerk of the Senate may elect to commence receiving in-service retirement distributions from this system upon attaining the age of 70 and one-half years: , That the member is eligible to retire under the provisions of 5-10-20 or 5-10-21 of this code: , That the member elects to stop actively contributing to the system while receiving the in-service distributions. For Medicare Retirees, Medicare will be primary and PEIA will be secondary. If a question arises regarding the status of an individual as a leased employee, the board has final authority to decide the question. Click herefor more information on the West Virginia Retirement Plus Program. To view your W2 forms, payroll deductions, pay stubs, and direct deposit information, visit, Employee Prior State Service Declaration DOP-V1, Payroll Administrators/Employee Forms and Calendars. or more consecutive calendar years, as certified by the clerk of the house in which the employee served, is an employee, any provision to the contrary in this article notwithstanding, and is entitled to credited service in accordance with provisions of 5-10-14 of this code: , That members of the legislative body of any political subdivision and commissioners of the West Virginia Claims Commission are employees receiving one year of service credit for each one-year term served and prorated service credit for any partial term served, anything contained in this article to the contrary notwithstanding: , That only a compensated board member of a participating public employer appointed to a board of a nonlegislative body for the first time on or after July 1, 2014, who normally is required to work 12 months per year and 1040 hours of service per year is an employee. endstream endobj 16 0 obj <>stream Active Duty Military Pay - Line 34 Expecting a first retirement check or a refund? (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, a retired judge or justice who is recalled and assigned to temporary service as a senior judge or justice by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals may receive per diem compensation pursuant to the requirements of 51-9-10 of this code while continuing to receive his or her annuity. 2023 OPERS benefit payment schedule. Retiree Basic Life and Health Enrollment Form* Summary Plan Description PPB Plans A, B & D* FBMC Retiree Enrollment Forms* FBMC Retiree Benefits Guides*Premium Rate Charts, If you are a Non-Medicare Retiree, your agency participates in PEIA retirement insurance and you want to continue PEIA Health Insurance, you will need visit your Retirement Board and your HR Department. Employers log in here. (B) If the member has less than five years of credited service, the average of the annual rate of compensation received by the member during his or her total years of credited service; and in determining the annual compensation, under either paragraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision, of a member of the Legislature who participates in the retirement system as a member of the Legislature in the year 1971, or in any year thereafter, his or her actual legislative compensation (the total of all compensation paid under 4-2A-2, 4-2A-3, 4-2A-4, and 4-2A-5 of this code), in the year 1971, or in any year thereafter, plus any other compensation he or she receives in any year from any other participating public employer including the State of West Virginia, without any multiple in excess of one times his or her actual legislative compensation and other compensation, shall be used: Provided, That final average salary for any former member of the Legislature or for any member of the Legislature in the year 1971 who, in either event, was a member of the Legislature on November 30, 1968, or November 30, 1969, or November 30, 1970, or on November 30 in any one or more of those three years and who participated in the retirement system as a member of the Legislature in any one or more of those years means: (i) Either, notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision preceding this proviso, $1,500 multiplied by eight, plus the highest other compensation the former member or member received in any one of the three years from any other participating public employer including the State of West Virginia; or (ii) final average salary determined in accordance with paragraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision, whichever computation produces the higher final average salary, and in determining the annual compensation under subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, the legislative compensation of the former member shall be computed on the basis of $1,500 multiplied by eight, and the legislative compensation of the member shall be computed on the basis set forth in the provisions of this subdivision immediately preceding this paragraph or on the basis of $1,500 multiplied by eight, whichever computation as to the member produces the higher annual compensation; (14) "Internal Revenue Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, codified at Title 26 of the United States Code; (15) "Limited credited service" means service by employees of the West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority, in the employment of West Virginia University, during a period when the employee made contributions to another retirement system, as required by West Virginia University, and did not make contributions to the Public Employees Retirement System: Provided, That while limited credited service can be used for the formula set forth in 5-10-21(e) of this code, it may not be used to increase benefits calculated under 5-10-22 of this code; (16) "Member" means any person who has accumulated contributions standing to his or her credit in the members deposit fund; (17) "Participating public employer" means the State of West Virginia, any board, commission, department, institution or spending unit and includes any agency created by rule of the Supreme Court of Appeals having full-time employees, which for the purposes of this article is considered a department of state government; and any political subdivision in the state which has elected to cover its employees, as defined in this article, under the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System; (18) "Plan year" means the same as referenced in 5-10-42 of this code; (19) "Political subdivision" means the State of West Virginia, a county, city or town in the state; a school corporation or corporate unit; any separate corporation or instrumentality established by one or more counties, cities or towns, as permitted by law; any corporation or instrumentality supported in most part by counties, cities or towns; and any public corporation charged by law with the performance of a governmental function and whose jurisdiction is coextensive with one or more counties, cities or towns: Provided, That any mental health agency participating in the Public Employees Retirement System before July 1, 1997, is considered a political subdivision solely for the purpose of permitting those employees who are members of the Public Employees Retirement System to remain members and continue to participate in the retirement system at their option after July 1, 1997: Provided, however, That the Regional Community Policing Institute which participated in the Public Employees Retirement System before July 1, 2000, is considered a political subdivision solely for the purpose of permitting those employees who are members of the Public Employees Retirement System to remain members and continue to participate in the Public Employees Retirement System after July 1, 2000; (20) "Prior service" means service rendered prior to July 1, 1961, to the extent credited a member as provided in this article; (21) "Regular interest" means the rate or rates of interest per annum, compounded annually, as the board of trustees adopts from time to time; (22) "Required beginning date" means April 1 of the calendar year following the later of: (A) The calendar year in which the member attains age 70.5 (if born before July 1, 1949) or age 72 (if born after June 30, 1949); or (B) the calendar year in which a member ceases providing service covered under this retirement system to a participating employer; (23) "Retirant" means any member who commences an annuity payable by the retirement system; (24) "Retirement" means a members withdrawal from the employ of a participating public employer and the commencement of an annuity by the retirement system; (25) "Retirement system" or "system" means the West Virginia Public Employees Retirement System created and established by this article; (26) "Retroactive service" means: (1) Service between July 1, 1961, and the date an employer decides to become a participating member of the Public Employees Retirement System; (2) service prior to July 1, 1961, for which the employee is not entitled to prior service at no cost in accordance with 162 CSR 5.12; and (3) service of any member of a legislative body or employees of the State Legislature whose term of employment is otherwise classified as temporary for which the employee is eligible, but for which the employee did not elect to participate at that time; (27) "Service" means personal service rendered to a participating public employer by an employee of a participating public employer; (28) "Special needs trust" means a trust established pursuant to 44D-8B-13 of this code for an individual beneficiary with a disability and such special needs trust is or will become irrevocable by the time the retirant names the special needs trust as the beneficiary of retirants annuity benefits in place of the individual beneficiary and terminates upon the death of the individual beneficiary with no further annuity benefits being payable; and. Online access for current retirees -PEIA Insurance Contact Information Health, Mountaineer Flexible, Life Insurance -CPRB Tip Hotline If you are Medicare Eligible, you may transfer directly to Humana.