Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 59 - Administration, Funds, Accounts, General Provisions
Section 5934 - State accumulation account


The State accumulation account shall be the ledger account to which shall be credited all contributions of the Commonwealth or other employers whose employees are members of the system and made in accordance with the provisions of section 5507(a) or (d) (relating to contributions to the system by the Commonwealth and other employers) except that the amounts received under the provisions of the act of May 12, 1943 (P.L.259, No.120), and the amounts received under the provisions of the Liquor Code, act of April 12, 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), shall be credited to the State Police benefit account or the enforcement officers' benefit account as the case may be. All amounts transferred to the fund by county retirement systems or pension plans in accordance with the provisions of section 5507(c) also shall be credited to the State accumulation account. All amounts transferred to the fund by the Public School Employees' Retirement System in accordance with section 5303.2(e) (relating to election to convert school service to State service), except amounts credited to the members' savings account, and all amounts paid by the Department of Corrections in accordance with section 5303.2(f) also shall be credited to the State accumulation account. All advance payment of accrued liability contributions under section 5507(h) shall be credited to the State accumulation account. The State accumulation account shall be credited with valuation interest. The reserves necessary for the payment of annuities and death benefits resulting from membership in the system as approved by the board and as provided in Chapter 57 (relating to benefits) shall be transferred from the State accumulation account to the annuity reserve account provided for in section 5935 (relating to annuity reserve account), except that the reserves necessary on account of a member who is an officer of the Pennsylvania State Police or an enforcement officer shall be transferred from the State accumulation account to the State Police benefit account provided for in section 5936 (relating to State Police benefit account) or to the enforcement officers' benefit account as provided for in section 5937 (relating to enforcement officers' benefit account) as the case may be. The reserves necessary for the payment of supplemental annuities in excess of those reserves credited to the supplemental annuity account on June 30, 2010, shall be transferred from the State accumulation account to the supplemental annuity account. In the event that supplemental annuities are increased by legislation enacted after December 31, 2009, the necessary reserves shall be transferred from the State accumulation account to the supplemental annuity account.
(June 22, 1999, P.L.75, No.12, eff. imd.; Apr. 23, 2002, P.L.272, No.38, eff. imd.; Nov. 23, 2010, P.L.1269, No.120, eff. imd.; June 12, 2017, P.L.11, No.5, eff. imd.; Nov. 27, 2019, P.L.723, No.105, eff. imd.)

2019 Amendment. See section 9 of Act 105 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to applicability.
Cross References. Section 5934 is referred to in sections 5932, 5935 of this title.

Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Title 71 - STATE GOVERNMENT

Chapter 59 - Administration, Funds, Accounts, General Provisions

Extra - Chapter Notes

Section 5901 - The State Employees' Retirement Board

Section 5902 - Administrative duties of the board

Section 5903 - Duties of the board to advise and report to heads of departments, members and participants

Section 5904 - Duties of the board to report to the Public School Employees' Retirement Board

Section 5905 - Duties of the board regarding applications and elections of members and participants

Section 5905.1 - Installment payments of accumulated deductions

Section 5906 - Duties of heads of departments

Section 5907 - Rights and duties of State employees, members and participants

Section 5908 - Rights and duties of annuitants

Section 5909 - Stress test of system

Section 5931 - Management of fund and accounts

Section 5932 - State Employees' Retirement Fund

Section 5933 - Members' savings account

Section 5934 - State accumulation account

Section 5935 - Annuity reserve account

Section 5936 - State Police benefit account

Section 5937 - Enforcement officers' benefit account

Section 5938 - Supplemental annuity account

Section 5939 - Interest reserve account

Section 5940 - Northern Ireland-related investments

Section 5941 - Benefits completion plan

Section 5951 - State guarantee regarding the system

Section 5952 - State supervision

Section 5953 - Taxation, attachment and assignment of funds

Section 5953.1 - Approval of domestic relations orders

Section 5953.2 - Irrevocable beneficiary

Section 5953.3 - Irrevocable survivor annuitant

Section 5953.4 - Amendment of approved domestic relations orders

Section 5953.5 - Transfer of domestic relations orders against county pension plans

Section 5953.6 - Irrevocable successor payee

Section 5954 - Fraud and adjustment of errors

Section 5955 - Construction of part

Section 5955.1 - Construction of part with respect to older workers protection

Section 5955.2 - Construction of part with respect to the Internal Revenue Code

Section 5956 - Provisions severable

Section 5957 - Independent Fiscal Office study

Section 5958 - Public Pension Management and Asset Investment Review Commission