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§ 24-8-223. Redetermination of benefits

(a) Each July 1 the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System shall redetermine the amount of each monthly benefit which has been payable by the system for at least twelve (12) full calendar months. The redetermined amount shall be payable for the following twelve (12) calendar months. (b) The redetermined amount shall be the amount of benefit […]

§ 24-8-224. Benefits when serving past mandatory retirement age

(a) Notwithstanding § 24-8-215 regarding mandatory retirement under the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System for any judge or justice upon reaching seventy (70) years of age or any other law to the contrary, any judge or justice covered under the system who served continuously for at least sixteen (16) years, who is at least eighty (80) […]

§ 24-8-225. Limitation on benefit enhancement — Acts 1997, No. 926

(a) No benefit enhancement provided for by § 24-8-214 shall be implemented if it would cause the publicly supported retirement system’s unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities to exceed a thirty-year amortization. (b) No benefit enhancement provided for by § 24-8-214 shall be implemented by any publicly supported system which has unfunded actuarial accrued liabilities being amortized […]

§ 24-8-226. Minimum benefits

The following minimum benefits shall apply to any plan based only on actual service under the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System: (1) The annual minimum disability benefit shall be equal to twenty-five and six-tenths percent (25.6%) of the annual salary of the judge or justice; and (2) The annual minimum survivors’ benefit shall be an amount […]

§ 24-8-227. Definition

Unless the context requires otherwise, any listing of judges or justices in § 24-8-201 et seq. and § 24-8-701 et seq. shall include all judges and justices in the Arkansas Judicial Retirement System.

§ 24-8-228. Proposals to establish or revise benefits

(a) The Board of Trustees of the Arkansas Judicial 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 a multiplier or any benefit. (b) An individual who received a refund of contributions from […]