(a) Any person who is a member of the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System shall be entitled to purchase creditable service in the system for a period not to exceed three (3) years for active service rendered by the member in the United States Armed Forces, after the member’s first employment in a position […]
All persons who are now vested or who hereafter vest under the Arkansas Public Employees’ Retirement System or the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System shall be entitled to a minimum monthly benefit of one hundred fifty dollars ($150).
(a) (1) In order to help offset the cost of health insurance and health care, a member who is receiving benefits from the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System before, on, or subsequent to July 1, 1999, shall have added to his or her annuity as determined under § 24-5-115 no less than the sum […]
(a) Effective July 1, 1991, the monthly retirement benefit payable to the retirees and beneficiaries of the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System who are entitled to receive an annuity for July 1991 shall be increased by four percent (4%) above the annuity such retiree or beneficiary received for June 1991. (b) The increase in […]
(a) Any employee of the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department or the Arkansas Department of Transportation who is a member of the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System and who has served as a member of the State Highway Commission shall receive partial credit, equal to forty percent (40%) of the time the member […]
(a) Effective July 1, 1993, the monthly retirement benefit payable to the retirees and beneficiaries of the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System who are entitled to receive an annuity for July 1993 shall be increased by two and nine-tenths percent (2.9%) above the annuity such retiree or beneficiary received for June 1993. (b) The […]
(a) Effective July 1, 1997, the monthly retirement benefit payable to the retirees and beneficiaries of the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System who are entitled to receive an annuity for July 1997 shall be increased by two and two-tenths percent (2.2%) above the annuity such retiree or beneficiary received for June 1997. (b) The […]
(a) Effective July 1, 1997, the monthly retirement benefit payable to the retirees and beneficiaries of the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System who are entitled to receive an annuity for July 1997 shall be increased by two percent (2%) above the annuity such retiree or beneficiary received for June 1997. (b) The increase in […]
No benefit enhancement provided for by § 24-5-116 shall be implemented if it would cause the publicly supported retirement system’s unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities to exceed a thirty-year amortization. No benefit enhancement provided for by § 24-5-116 shall be implemented by any publicly supported system which has unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities being amortized over a […]
No benefit enhancement provided for by § 24-5-118 shall be implemented if it would cause the publicly supported retirement system’s unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities to exceed a thirty-year amortization. No benefit enhancement provided for by § 24-5-118 shall be implemented by any publicly supported system which has unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities being amortized over a […]
The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System shall present to the Joint Committee on Public Retirement and Social Security Programs information concerning the statutory authority and actuarial appropriateness of proposed board actions to establish or revise any benefit or a provision of a deferred retirement option plan.
(a) (1) Beginning on March 1, 2001, the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System shall pay an amount not to exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) to the named beneficiary of the retiree or a member in the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Deferred Retirement Option Plan immediately following the retiree’s death. (2) If there […]
(a) Beginning July 1, 2001, the monthly retirement benefit payable to the retirees and beneficiaries of the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System who are entitled to receive an annuity for July 2001 shall be increased by four and eight-tenths percent (4.8%) above the annuity the retiree or beneficiary received for June 2001. (b) The […]
(a) The Executive Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System shall operate the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System and interpret any provisions of this chapter consistent with the requirements under the Internal Revenue Code as it existed on January 1, 2007, and applicable United States Treasury regulations […]
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, benefits paid under this chapter shall not exceed the limitations of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S. Code § 415, as it existed on January 1, 2011, that are applicable to governmental plans. (b) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas State Highway Employees’ Retirement System may […]
