40-18-19
Section 40-18-19 Exemptions - Generally. (a) The following exemptions from income taxation
shall be allowed to every individual resident taxpayer: (1) Retirement allowances, pensions
and annuities, or optional allowances, approved by the Board of Control of the Teachers' Retirement
System of Alabama, which exempt status is set out in Section 16-25-23. (2) Retirement allowances,
pensions and annuities or optional allowances, approved by the Board of Control of the Employees'
Retirement System of Alabama, which exempt status is set out in Section 36-27-28. (3) The
first eight thousand dollars ($8,000) of any retirement compensation, retirement allowances,
pensions and annuities, or optional allowances, received by any eligible firefighter, as defined
in Sections 36-32-1 and 36-32-2, or his or her designated beneficiary, from any firefighting
agency established in the State of Alabama, but only if such retirement compensation, retirement
allowances, pensions and annuities, or optional...
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45-28A-42.59
Section 45-28A-42.59 Insufficient funding. If at any time there shall not be sufficient money
in the policemen's and firemen's retirement fund to pay each person entitled to the benefit
thereof, the full amount per month as herein provided or any time the principal of the fund
reaches an amount of seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000) or less, then an equal percentage
of such monthly payment or payments shall be made to each beneficiary until the fund shall
be replenished to warrant the payment in full to each of the beneficiaries; provided that
the provisions of this section concerning prorated payments shall not be interpreted to include
those members drawing survivors' benefits and those members of the fund who are 100 percent
disabled and have no other personal income except those benefits derived from this subpart.
The board of trustees, or insurance custodian as provided for in this subpart, is authorized
to take such action as it deems necessary periodically to determine the...
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45-28A-42.65
Section 45-28A-42.65 Payments to beneficiaries of deceased active member. If any active member
of such police or fire department, or any member of such department on official leave of absence
from such department and in the Armed Forces of the United States, shall die from any cause
whatever, leaving a widow or widower, the board shall direct the payment from the fund, to
the widow or widower, of a sum equal to 50 percent of the amount specified in this subpart
to be paid to a retired fireman or policeman of the same rank as such deceased member at the
time of his or her death, the monthly payments to continue to such widow or widower during
his or her natural life and while unmarried. Should such deceased member leave no surviving
widow or widower, but leave surviving him or her a child or children under 18 years of age,
the board of trustees shall direct the payment monthly from such fund, until such child or
children shall have attained the age of 18 years, of a sum equal to 50...
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45-37A-51.243
Section 45-37A-51.243 Supplemental benefit. (a) In addition to the benefits described herein
for normal retirement, ordinary disability, and extraordinary disability, every participant
retired from city service or receiving a disability benefit immediately following having been
in the city service, which participant did not have active city service after July 1, 1989,
did not retire after July 1, 1990, or did not otherwise become eligible for a benefit calculated
at 2.25 percent, per year after July 1, 1990, shall have received after three years of retirement
or disability under this system an increase in monthly benefit in the amount of one hundred
fifty dollars ($150). Present and future surviving spouses or the survivors of the retirees,
who are not entitled to the 2.25 percent of the final average salary, shall have received
a monthly benefit increase in the amount of the percent of the one hundred fifty dollars ($150)
the surviving spouse or the survivor would normally be entitled...
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45-37A-51.245
Section 45-37A-51.245 Retroactive deferred retirement option plan. (a) Effective July 1, 2002,
a participant who retires at least 90 days following July 1, 2002, who has then completed
at least 23 years of credited service, and who is otherwise entitled to retire and receive
a normal retirement benefit, shall have the opportunity to elect a back drop plan. A participant
eligible for the back drop plan can elect in writing at his or her retirement to retroactively
drop his or her credited service in excess of 20 years, for a period of months not exceeding
36 months immediately preceding the date of retirement, the back drop period; provided that
the beginning of the back drop period may not extend past the earliest date on which the participant
would have qualified for a normal retirement benefit. A participant who is not actively employed
may not make a back drop election. To be effective, a back drop election by a married participant
shall be approved in writing by his or her spouse....
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45-37A-51.262
Section 45-37A-51.262 Life insurance; security. (a) Should a participant obtaining a loan terminate
employment for any reason, the participant shall be required to post security or collateral
to allow for payments on the loan to continue subsequent to retirement or repay the loan balance
within 60 days after termination, or the participant's retirement benefit under Division 6
shall be affected. The entire pension loan, including interest thereon, shall be paid in full
prior to receiving any pension benefits funds or return of contributions. Provided however,
if the participant is due to collect a retirement benefit beginning immediately upon termination,
the posting of insurance and/or security shall allow the payments to be deducted from the
participant's pension check. Such security may include a policy of insurance on his or her
life, all premiums payable by the participant, providing for the insurance company to repay
the unpaid balance of the loan in the event of his or her death...
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16-25-18
Section 16-25-18 Redetermination of allowances of certain retired members. (a) Any member who
retired prior to October 1, 1975 and who has served in the armed services, as described in
Section 16-25-3, shall be entitled to claim such full-time military service and to have all
retirement allowances due on or after October 1, 1975 redetermined as if the provisions of
said section, as amended, were in effect at the time such member retired; provided, that such
retired member pays into the Teachers' Retirement System, in a lump sum prior to October 1,
1976, an amount equal to four percent of the average compensation which was paid to a teacher
during each claimed year of full-time military service, plus and together therewith, eight
percent interest compounded from the last date of such claimed military service; provided
further, that such retired member shall not receive membership service credit for more than
four years of military service and shall receive no credit for military service...
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16-25-33
Section 16-25-33 Term Life Insurance Fund; payment of benefits; funding. (a) A separate fund
to be known as the Term Life Insurance Fund is hereby established within the Teachers' Retirement
System of Alabama. Such fund shall consist of all monies paid by the employers for term life
insurance, and of the investment earnings of such monies and all such funds shall be used
only for the payment of benefits provided by this section. (b) Commencing October 1, 1995,
upon proof satisfactory to the board of the death of a contributing member who is a full-time
employee there shall be paid in the form of a term life insurance benefit the sum of $15,000.
On account of the death of a part-time employee, the benefit provided herein shall be prorated
based on the employee's percent of full-time employment. This benefit shall be paid to the
designated beneficiary on file with the Teachers' Retirement System. For purposes of this
section, a person shall be deemed a contributing member if (1) he or...
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16-25-40
Section 16-25-40 Persons whose date of retirement is prior to October 1, 1987 or beneficiaries
of deceased members or retirees entitled to cost of living increases. There is hereby provided,
commencing October 1, 1988, to each person whose effective date of retirement for purposes
of receiving benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System is prior to October 1, 1987, and
to beneficiaries of deceased members or deceased retirees provided the date of death for such
deceased member or the effective date of retirement for such deceased retiree for purposes
of receiving benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System was prior to October 1, 1987, and
who is receiving a monthly allowance from the Teachers' Retirement System a cost-of-living
increase as follows: (1) One dollar per month for each year of service attained by said retiree
for each retiree selecting the maximum retirement allowance or Option 1. (2) One dollar per
month for each year of service attained by said retiree reduced by...
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16-25-42
Section 16-25-42 Persons in the Employees' Retirement System whose date of retirement is prior
to October 1, 1987 or beneficiaries of deceased members or retirees entitled to cost-of-living
increases. (a) There is hereby provided, commencing October 1, 1988 to certain persons identified
in subsection (b) herein, whose effective date of retirement for purposes of receiving benefits
from the Employees' Retirement System is prior to October 1, 1987 and to certain beneficiaries
of deceased members and deceased retirees, provided the effective date of retirement or death
for such deceased retiree or deceased member for purposes of receiving benefits from the Employees'
Retirement System was prior to October 1, 1987 and who is receiving a monthly allowance from
the Employees' Retirement System a cost-of-living increase as follows: (1) One dollar per
month for each year of service attained by said retiree for each retiree selecting the maximum
retirement allowance or Option 1. (2) One dollar...
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