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92_HB0962

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to public employee benefits.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The  Illinois  Pension  Code  is  amended  by
 5    changing Section 7-152 as follows:

 6        (40 ILCS 5/7-152) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 7-152)
 7        Sec. 7-152.  Disability benefits - Amount.  The amount of
 8    the  monthly  temporary  and  total  and permanent disability
 9    benefits shall be 50% of the participating  employee's  final
10    rate of earnings on the date disability was incurred, subject
11    to the following adjustments:
12        (a)  If  the participating employee has a reduced rate of
13    earnings  at  the  time  his  employment  ceases  because  of
14    disability, the rate of earnings shall  be  computed  on  the
15    basis of his last 12 month period of full-time employment.
16        (b)  If  the  participating  employee  is  eligible for a
17    disability benefit under the Federal Social Security Act, the
18    amount of monthly disability benefits shall be  reduced,  but
19    not  to  less  than  $10  a  month, by the amount he would be
20    eligible to receive as a disability benefit under the Federal
21    Social Security Act, whether or not because of service  as  a
22    covered  employee under this Article.  The reduction shall be
23    effective as of the month the employee is eligible for Social
24    Security  disability  benefits.   The  Board  may  make  such
25    reduction if it appears that the employee may be so  eligible
26    pending  determination of eligibility and make an appropriate
27    adjustment if necessary after  such  determination.   If  the
28    employee,  because  of  his  refusal to accept rehabilitation
29    services under the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 or  the
30    Federal  Social  Security  Act,  or  because  he is receiving
31    workers'  compensation  benefits,  has  his  Social  Security
 
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 1    benefits reduced or terminated, the disability benefit  shall
 2    be  reduced as if the employee were receiving his full Social
 3    Security disability benefit.
 4        (c)  If the employee is over age 65, was not eligible for
 5    a Social Security benefit immediately before reaching age  65
 6    and  is  eligible  for  a  Social  Security old-age insurance
 7    benefit, the amount of the monthly disability  benefit  shall
 8    be  reduced,  but not to less than $10 a month, by the amount
 9    of the old-age insurance benefit to  which  the  employee  is
10    entitled  whether  or not the employee applies for the Social
11    Security old-age insurance benefit.  This reduction shall  be
12    made  in  the  month  after  the  month in which the employee
13    attains age 65.  However, if the  employee  was  receiving  a
14    Social  Security  disability  benefit before reaching age 65,
15    the disability benefits after  age  65  shall  be  determined
16    under subsection (b) of this Section.
17        (d)  The  amount  of  disability  benefits  shall  not be
18    reduced by reason of any increase, other than  one  resulting
19    from  a  correction  in  the  employee's wage records, in the
20    amount of disability or old-age insurance benefits under  the
21    Federal  Social  Security  Act  which  takes effect after the
22    month of the initial reduction under paragraph (b) or (c)  of
23    this Section.
24        (e)  If  the  employee in any month receives compensation
25    from gainful employment which is more than 25% of  the  final
26    rate  of earnings on which his disability benefits are based,
27    the temporary disability benefit payable for that month shall
28    be reduced by an amount equal to such excess.
29        (f)  An employee who has been disabled for  at  least  30
30    days may return to work for the employer on a part-time basis
31    for  a  trial work period of up to one year, during which the
32    disability shall be deemed to continue.  Service credit shall
33    continue to accrue and the disability benefit shall  continue
34    to  be  paid  during  the  trial work period, but the benefit
 
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 1    shall be reduced by the amount of earnings  received  by  the
 2    disabled  employee.   Return  to service on a full-time basis
 3    shall terminate the trial work period.  The  reduction  under
 4    this  subsection  (f)  shall  be in lieu of the reduction, if
 5    any, required under subsection (e).
 6        (g)  Beginning January 1, 1988, every total and permanent
 7    disability benefit shall be increased by 3% of  the  original
 8    amount  of  the  benefit,  not  compounded, on each January 1
 9    following the later of (1) the date the total  and  permanent
10    disability  benefit  begins,  or  (2)  the date the total and
11    permanent disability benefit would have begun if the employee
12    had been paid a temporary disability benefit for 30 months.
13        (h)  Beginning January  1,  2002,  the  basic  disability
14    benefit  for  a  sheriff's  law  enforcement  employee  whose
15    disability  is  the  result  of sickness, accident, or injury
16    incurred in or resulting from the performance of  an  act  of
17    duty shall be 65% of the employee's final rate of earnings on
18    the  date  the  disability  was incurred, rather than the 50%
19    otherwise provided  under  this  Section.   A  sheriff's  law
20    enforcement  employee  who  meets  the  requirement  of  this
21    subsection  (h) and is receiving a disability benefit on that
22    date shall have the benefit increased accordingly.
23    (Source: P.A. 87-740.)

24        Section 90.  The State Mandates Act is amended by  adding
25    Section 8.25 as follows:

26        (30 ILCS 805/8.25 new)
27        Sec.  8.25.  Exempt  mandate.  Notwithstanding Sections 6
28    and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is  required
29    for  the  implementation  of  any  mandate  created  by  this
30    amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly.

31        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 
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 1    becoming law.

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