Subdivision 1. Refund rights. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), when any former member accepts a refund, all existing service credits and all rights and benefits to which the person was entitled prior to the acceptance of the refund terminate.
(b) A refund under section 353.651, subdivision 3, paragraph (c), does not result in a forfeiture of salary credit for the allowable service credit covered by the refund.
(c) If a person forfeits service credits, rights, and benefits under paragraph (a), the person's service credits, rights, and benefits shall be restored if the person returns to employment covered by the association for at least six months of allowable service and repays all amounts previously received under section 353.34, subdivision 2, plus interest at the applicable rate or rates specified in section 356.59, subdivision 3, compounded annually, from the date each amount was received to the date the amount is repaid. The repayment must be made within six months of the last day of public service employment. A person may have service credits, rights, and benefits restored under this paragraph only one time.
Subd. 2. Refund repayment. A person who receives a refund of accumulated employee deductions, plus interest, may repay the total amount of the refund including the interest, within 30 days of the date the refund was issued, to retain allowable service.
1957 c 935 s 15; 1959 c 650 s 38; 1963 c 641 s 30; 1971 c 106 s 32; 1973 c 753 s 60; 1976 c 329 s 27; 1979 c 216 s 16; 1982 c 404 s 6; 1986 c 444; 1989 c 319 art 3 s 18; 1990 c 570 art 11 s 7; 1992 c 598 art 2 s 6; 1993 c 307 art 4 s 29; 2013 c 111 art 11 s 5; 2015 c 68 art 2 s 13; 2018 c 211 art 6 s 24; art 10 s 11
Structure Minnesota Statutes
Chapters 352 - 356B — Retirement
Chapter 353 — Public Employees Retirement Association
Section 353.012 — University Of Minnesota Employees; Furlough Service And Salary Credit.
Section 353.014 — Federally Protected Military Leave.
Section 353.0141 — Other Military Leave.
Section 353.0162 — Salary Credit Purchase For Periods Of Reduced Salary.
Section 353.017 — Employees Of Labor Organizations.
Section 353.028 — City Managers; Election; Deferred Compensation.
Section 353.03 — Board Of Trustees.
Section 353.031 — Disability Determination Procedures.
Section 353.05 — Custodian Of Funds.
Section 353.06 — State Board Of Investment To Invest Funds.
Section 353.08 — Legal Adviser, Attorney General; Venue.
Section 353.14 — Benefits From Other Funds.
Section 353.15 — Nonassignability And Exemption From Judicial Process.
Section 353.16 — Audit Of Books And Accounts; Insurance Laws Not Applicable.
Section 353.19 — Penalties For False Information.
Section 353.27 — General Employees Retirement Fund.
Section 353.28 — Financing Of Employer Contributions.
Section 353.29 — Retirement Annuity Upon Termination Of Membership.
Section 353.30 — Annuities Upon Retirement.
Section 353.31 — Survivor Benefits.
Section 353.32 — Refunds After Death Of Member Or Former Member.
Section 353.33 — Total And Permanent Disability Benefits.
Section 353.335 — Disabilitant Earnings Reports.
Section 353.34 — Rights Upon Termination Of Membership.
Section 353.35 — Consequences Of Refund; Repayment, Rights Restored.
Section 353.37 — Reemployment Of Annuitant.
Section 353.371 — Postretirement Option.
Section 353.46 — Savings Clauses.
Section 353.50 — Merf Consolidation Account; Establishment And Operation.
Section 353.505 — State Contributions; Former Merf Division.
Section 353.64 — Membership; Qualifications; Police Officer, Firefighter.
Section 353.65 — Contributions.
Section 353.651 — Retirement Annuity Upon Separation From Public Service.
Section 353.6511 — Alternative Retirement Benefit Coverage In Certain Instances.
Section 353.6512 — Alternative Retirement Benefit Coverage In Certain Instances.
Section 353.652 — Social Security Benefit Offset.
Section 353.656 — Disability Benefits.
Section 353.657 — Survivor Benefits.
Section 353.659 — Local Relief Association Consolidation Account Benefits.
Section 353.665 — Merger Of Certain Consolidation Accounts Into Pera-p&f.
Section 353.666 — Past Service Credit For Certain Members Extended Coverage.
Section 353.67 — Application For Annuity.
Section 353.68 — Scope And Application.
Section 353.855 — Coverage By The Public Employees Retirement Association.
Section 353.87 — Volunteer Firefighters; Participation; Limitation; And Refund.
Section 353.95 — Account For Duluth Postemployment Benefits.