102 KAR 1:140.
Disability.
RELATES TO: KRS
161.661
STATUTORY
AUTHORITY: KRS 161.310
NECESSITY,
FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 161.661(5) provides that benefits to disability
retirees shall be recalculated at the termination of the entitlement period as
defined in KRS 161.661(3). This administrative regulation sets out the
procedures to be followed in making these new calculations of payable benefits.
Section 1. When
a retirement allowance is recalculated following the termination of the
entitlement period for disability benefits, the member may choose any option
plan authorized under KRS 161.630. Survivors of a member whose allowance has
been recalculated shall not be eligible for survivor benefits as set forth in
KRS 161.520.
Section 2.
Requirements for medical reexaminations, income and employment restrictions,
and reevaluation of eligibility status, shall be the same as disability
retirement in KRS 161.661.
Section 3. Any
medical coverage extended to persons retired by reason of disability under the
terms of the statutes and contracts with insurance carriers shall be deemed to
extend to those persons who retired by reason of disability on July 1, 1964,
and thereafter, and whose eligibility period as set forth in KRS 161.661(3) and
(5), has expired. (TRS-30; 1 Ky.R. 462; eff. 3-12-75; Am. 17 Ky.R. 2477; eff.
4-5-91.)