Section 354A.29 St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association Postretirement Adjustment - Minnesota Statutes

354A.29 ST. PAUL TEACHERS RETIREMENT FUND ASSOCIATION POSTRETIREMENT ADJUSTMENT.

Subdivision 1.Articles of incorporation and bylaws.

Permission is granted for the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association under Minnesota Statutes, section 354A.12, subdivision 4, to amend its articles of incorporation and bylaws to provide postretirement adjustments under this section.

Subd. 2.

[Repealed, 2009 c 169 art 7 s 3]

Subd. 3.Postretirement adjustment.

(a) The postretirement adjustment described in this section must be determined by the executive director of the St. Paul Teachers Retirement Fund Association and approved by the board annually.

(b) On January 1, each eligible person who has been receiving an annuity or benefit under the articles of incorporation, the bylaws, or this chapter for at least three calendar months as of the end of the last day of the previous calendar year is eligible to receive a postretirement increase as further specified in this subdivision.

(c) A percentage adjustment must be computed and paid under this subdivision to eligible persons under paragraph (b). This adjustment is determined by reference to the Consumer Price Index for urban wage earners and clerical workers all items index as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics within the United States Department of Labor each year as part of the determination of annual cost-of-living adjustments to recipients of federal old-age, survivors, and disability insurance. For calculations of the cost-of-living adjustment under paragraph (d), the term "average third quarter Consumer Price Index value" means the sum of the monthly index values as initially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the months of July, August, and September, divided by 3.

(d) Before January 1 of each year, the executive director must calculate the amount of the cost-of-living adjustment by dividing the most recent average third quarter index value by the same average third quarter index value from the previous year, subtract one from the resulting quotient, and express the result as a percentage amount, which must be rounded to the nearest one-tenth of one percent.

(e) The amount calculated under paragraph (d) is the full cost-of-living adjustment to be applied as a permanent increase to the regular payment of each eligible member on January 1 of the next calendar year. For any eligible member whose effective date of benefit commencement occurred during the calendar year before the cost-of-living adjustment is applied, the full increase amount must be prorated on the basis of whole calendar quarters in benefit payment status in the calendar year prior to the January 1 on which the cost-of-living adjustment is applied, calculated to the third decimal place.

(f) The adjustment may not be less than zero, nor greater than five percent.

Subd. 4.

[Repealed, 2009 c 169 art 7 s 3]

Subd. 5.

[Repealed, 2009 c 169 art 7 s 3]

Subd. 6.

[Repealed, 2007 c 134 art 7 s 3]

History:

1997 c 233 art 3 s 7; 2006 c 271 art 3 s 47; 2009 c 169 art 7 s 1

NOTE: The amendment to subdivision 3 by Laws 2009, chapter 169, article 7, section 1, expires June 30, 2011. Laws 2009, chapter 169, article 7, section 4.