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| Public Act 101-0069
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| HB2824 Enrolled | LRB101 08718 RPS 53805 b |
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AN ACT concerning public employee benefits.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by changing |
Sections 8-125, 8-162, and 8-244.1 as follows:
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(40 ILCS 5/8-125) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-125)
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Sec. 8-125. Annuity.
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"Annuity": Equal monthly payments for life, unless |
otherwise specified.
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For annuities taking effect before January 1, 1998, the |
first payment
shall be due and payable one month after the |
occurrence
of the event upon which payment of the annuity |
depends, and the last
payment shall be due and payable as of |
the date of the annuitant's death
and shall be prorated from |
the date of the last preceding payment to the
date of death for |
deaths that occur on or before March 31, 2000. All
payments |
made
on or after April 1, 2000 shall be made on the first day of |
the calendar month
and the last payment shall be made on the |
first day of the calendar month in
which the annuity payment |
period ends. All payments for months beginning with
April of |
2000 shall be for the entire calendar month, without proration. |
A pro
rata amount shall be paid for that part of the month from |
the March 2000
annuity payment date through March 31, 2000.
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For annuities taking effect on or after January 1, 1998,
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payments shall be made as of the first day of the calendar
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month, with the first payment to be made
as of the first day of |
the calendar month coincidental with or next
following the |
first day of the annuity payment period, and the last payment
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to be made as of the first day of the calendar month in which |
the annuity
payment period ends. For annuities taking effect on |
or
after January 1, 1998, all payments shall be for the entire |
calendar month,
without proration. The date on which the |
annuity payment period begins shall not be prior to termination |
or more than one year prior to receipt by the board of the |
written application for benefits.
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For the purposes of this Section, the "annuity payment |
period" means the
period beginning on the day after the |
occurrence of the event upon which
payment of the annuity |
depends, and ending on the day upon which the death of
the |
annuitant or other event terminating the annuity occurs.
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(Source: P.A. 90-31, eff. 6-27-97; 91-887, eff. 7-6-00.)
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(40 ILCS 5/8-162) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-162)
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Sec. 8-162. Proof of disability, duty and ordinary.
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Proof of duty or ordinary disability shall be furnished to |
the board by
at least one licensed and practicing physician |
appointed by the board. The
board may require other evidence of |
disability. Each disabled employee who
receives duty or |
ordinary disability benefit shall be examined at least
once a |
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year, or a longer period of time as determined by the board, by |
one or more licensed and practicing physicians appointed by
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board. When the disability ceases, the board shall discontinue |
payment
of the benefit and the employee shall be returned to |
active service.
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(Source: Laws 1963, p. 161.)
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(40 ILCS 5/8-244.1) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 8-244.1)
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Sec. 8-244.1. Payment of annuity other than direct.
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(a) The board, at the written direction and request of any |
annuitant,
may, solely as an accommodation to such annuitant, |
pay the annuity due him
to a bank, savings and loan association |
or any other financial institution
insured by an agency of the |
federal government, for deposit to his account,
or to a bank or |
trust company for deposit in a trust established by him for
his |
benefit with such bank, savings and loan association or trust |
company,
and such annuitant may withdraw such direction at any
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time. An annuitant who directs the board to pay the annuity due |
him or her to a financial institution shall hold the board and |
Fund harmless from any claim or loss related to any error as to |
whether the financial institution is or continues to be |
federally insured. The board may also, in the case of any |
disability beneficiary or
annuitant for whom no estate guardian |
has been appointed and who is
confined in a publicly owned and |
operated mental institution, pay such
disability benefit or |
annuity due such person to the superintendent or
other head of |
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such institution or hospital for deposit to such person's
trust |
fund account maintained for him by such institution or |
hospital,
if by law such trust fund accounts are authorized or |
recognized.
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(b) An annuitant formerly employed by the City of Chicago |
may authorize
the withholding of a portion of his or her |
annuity for payment of dues to the
labor organization which |
formerly represented the annuitant when the annuitant
was an |
active employee; however, no withholding shall be required |
under this
subsection for payment to one labor organization |
unless a minimum of 25
annuitants authorize such withholding. |
The Board shall prescribe a form for
the authorization of |
withholding of dues, release of name, social security
number |
and address and shall provide such forms to employees, |
annuitants and
labor organizations upon request. Amounts |
withheld by the Board under this
subsection shall be promptly |
paid over to the designated organizations,
indicating the |
names, social security numbers and addresses of annuitants on
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whose behalf dues were withheld.
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At the request and at the expense of the labor organization |
that formerly
represented the annuitant, the City of Chicago |
shall coordinate mailings no
more than twice in any |
twelve-month period to such annuitants and the Board
shall |
supply current annuitant addresses to the City of Chicago upon |
request.
These mailings shall be limited to informing the |
annuitants of their rights
under this subsection (b), the form |
