Administrative law judges and legal advisors serving in Armed Forces may elect to purchase creditable prior service
An administrative law judge or legal advisor who served in the U.S. military before joining Missouri's retirement system can buy up to four years of extra retirement credit for that military time. The person pays an amount based on what the state would have contributed, plus simple interest, and has up to two years to finish paying. If that person dies before retiring, their surviving spouse can get the money back — but only if the spouse is not already receiving a different survivor benefit.
287.856. s and s serving in may elect to purchase — , payment period — may receive refund. — 1. Any administrative law judge or legal advisor as defined in section 287.812 who had performed active in the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Army or Air Guard, Coast Guard, or any thereof prior to becoming a member and who became a member after his under honorable conditions may elect, prior to retirement, to purchase all of the member's creditable prior service equivalent to such service in the Armed Forces, but not to exceed four years. The purchase shall be by the member's of documentation verifying the member's dates of active service and by paying to the an amount equal to what would have been contributed by the state on the member's behalf had he been a member for the period for which the member is electing to purchase and had the member's during such period of membership been the same as the annual salary rate at which the member was initially employed by a , with the calculations based on the in effect on the date of as an administrative law judge or legal advisor with at the same rate in effect at the time of used by the Missouri state employees' retirement system calculated from the date of such employment from which the member could first receive to the date of election under this . The payment shall be made over a period of not longer than two years, measured from the date of election, and with simple interest on the unpaid balance. Payments made for such creditable prior service under this section shall be treated by the Missouri state employees' retirement system as would contributions made by the state and shall not be subject to any prohibition on member contributions or refund in effect August 28, 1992.
2. The surviving spouse of any deceased member who purchased creditable prior service for service in the subsection 1 of this section and who died prior to retirement may, upon written request, receive a refund of the amount contributed for such purchase of creditable prior service provided the surviving spouse is not entitled to a payable under the provisions of section 104.420.
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Source & history notes
(L. 1992 S.B. 499, et al. § 287.860, A.L. 1997 H.B. 356)
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