Public Employees Retirement System

ORS 238.607
Actuarial equivalency factor tables

(1)

Once every two calendar years, the Public Employees Retirement Board shall adopt actuarial equivalency factor tables for the purpose of computing the payments to be made to members and their beneficiaries, alternate payees and judge members and their spouses and beneficiaries. The tables may be adopted in conjunction with the system evaluation required by ORS 238.605 (Actuarial report on system). Tables adopted under this section must use the best actuarial information on mortality available at the time the board adopts the tables, as provided by the actuary engaged by the board. Actuarial equivalency factor tables adopted under this section become effective on January 1 of the calendar year following adoption of the tables by the board. All computations of payments must use the actuarial equivalency factor tables that are in effect on:

(a)

The effective date of retirement for any member, judge member or alternate payee;

(b)

The date that the first payment is due for any death beneficiary; or

(c)

The date that the first payment is due for any recalculation of payments that is not attributable to error, including but not limited to recalculations under ORS 238.465 (Benefits payable to others under certain judgments) (2).

(2)

The board may not defer or delay implementation of the actuarial equivalency factor tables adopted under this section. [2003 c.68 §2]
Note: Sections 3 and 4, chapter 68, Oregon Laws 2003, provide:
Sec. 3. The Public Employees Retirement Board shall first adopt actuarial equivalency factor tables under section 2 of this 2003 Act [238.607 (Actuarial equivalency factor tables)] to become effective January 1, 2005. [2003 c.68 §3]
Sec. 4. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, for the purpose of computing the retirement allowance of members and alternate payees with effective dates of retirement on or after July 1, 2003, and before January 1, 2005, the Public Employees Retirement Board shall use actuarial equivalency factor tables that are based on the mortality assumptions of the actuary’s 2001 experience study as adopted by the board on September 10, 2002.

(2)

The retirement allowance of any member or alternate payee who has an effective date of retirement on or after July 1, 2003, shall be the higher of the following amounts:

(a)

The amount calculated for the retirement allowance selected by the member under ORS 238.300 (Service retirement allowance), 238.305 (Optional service retirement allowance calculations), 238.320 (Disability retirement allowance) or 238.325 (Optional disability retirement allowance calculations) determined as of the member’s or alternate payee’s effective date of retirement, using all calculations applicable to the member under ORS 238.300 (Service retirement allowance) (2) and using actuarial equivalency factor tables in effect on the effective date of retirement for the purpose of all calculations using actuarial equivalency factor tables; or

(b)

The amount calculated under subsection (3) of this section.

(3)

For each member or alternate payee described in subsection (2) of this section, the board shall establish years of service, an account balance and a final average salary as of June 30, 2003. Years of service for the member as of June 30, 2003, shall include all creditable service of the member determined as of June 30, 2003, including any retirement credit acquired by the member under ORS 238.105 (Restoration of credit forfeited by reason of termination of membership) to 238.175 (Retirement credit for periods of disability) before July 1, 2003. The account balance shall include all employee contributions made by or on behalf of the member as of June 30, 2003, and earnings on those contributions as of June 30, 2003, credited in the manner provided by board rules in effect on May 9, 2003, governing crediting of earnings upon retirement of a member. The board shall then calculate the retirement allowance selected by the member under ORS 238.300 (Service retirement allowance), 238.305 (Optional service retirement allowance calculations), 238.320 (Disability retirement allowance) or 238.325 (Optional disability retirement allowance calculations), using all calculations applicable to the member under ORS 238.300 (Service retirement allowance) (2), except that:

(a)

The board shall use the actuarial equivalency factor tables in effect on June 30, 2003, for the purpose of all calculations using actuarial equivalency factor tables; and

(b)

The board shall use the years of service, account balance and final average salary established by the board under this subsection for the member as of June 30, 2003.

(4)

The board need not perform the calculations described in subsections (2) and (3) of this section for a member if the board actuarially determines that one of the calculations described in subsection (2) or (3) of this section necessarily provides the highest amount.

(5)

Any monthly payments to be made to a death beneficiary under ORS 238.390 (Death benefit), 238.395 (Additional death benefit) or 238.405 (Death benefit payable to survivors of certain police officers or firefighters) for a member who dies on or after May 9, 2003, shall be calculated using the actuarial equivalency factor tables that are in effect on the date that the first payment is due to the death beneficiary.

(6)

This section and section 2, chapter 68, Oregon Laws 2003 [238.607 (Actuarial equivalency factor tables)], do not apply to the calculation of the retirement allowance and surviving spouse pension of a person who is a judge member on June 30, 2003, and who makes an election under ORS 238.565 (Judge’s beneficiaries) (4). The board shall use the actuarial equivalency factor tables in effect on June 30, 2003, for the purpose of calculating the retirement allowance and surviving spouse pension of a person who is a judge member on June 30, 2003, and who makes an election under ORS 238.565 (Judge’s beneficiaries) (4), whether that election is made before, on or after June 30, 2003. [2003 c.67 §40; 2003 c.68 §4; 2003 c.625 §16]
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