Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 85 - Administration and Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 8534 - Fraud and adjustment of errors


(a) Penalty for fraud.--Any person who shall knowingly make any false statement or shall falsify or permit to be falsified any record or records of this system or plan in any attempt to defraud the system or plan as a result of such act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(b) Adjustment of errors.--Should any change or mistake in records result in any member, participant, beneficiary, survivor annuitant or successor payee receiving from the system or plan more or less than he would have been entitled to receive had the records been correct, then regardless of the intentional or unintentional nature of the error and upon the discovery of such error, the board shall correct the error and if the error affects contributions to or payments from the system, then so far as practicable shall adjust the payments which may be made for and to such person in such a manner that the actuarial equivalent of the benefit to which he was correctly entitled shall be paid. If the error affects contributions to or payments from the plan, the board shall take such action as shall be provided for in the plan document.
(June 12, 2017, P.L.11, No.5, eff. imd.)

Cross References. Section 8534 is referred to in section 8303.1 of this title.

Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Title 24 - EDUCATION

Chapter 85 - Administration and Miscellaneous Provisions

Extra - Chapter Notes

Section 8501 - Public School Employees' Retirement Board

Section 8502 - Administrative duties of board

Section 8502.1 - Health insurance (Deleted by amendment)

Section 8502.2 - Health insurance

Section 8503 - Duties of board to advise and report to employers, members and participants

Section 8504 - Duties of board to report to State Employees' Retirement Board

Section 8505 - Duties of board regarding applications and elections of members and participants

Section 8505.1 - Installment payments of accumulated deductions

Section 8506 - Duties of employers

Section 8507 - Rights and duties of school employees, members and participants

Section 8508 - Rights and duties of annuitants

Section 8509 - Health insurance premium assistance program

Section 8510 - Stress test of system

Section 8521 - Management of fund and accounts

Section 8522 - Public School Employees' Retirement Fund

Section 8523 - Members' savings account

Section 8524 - State accumulation account

Section 8525 - Annuity reserve account

Section 8526 - Health insurance account

Section 8527 - Northern Ireland-related investments

Section 8531 - State guarantee regarding the system

Section 8532 - State supervision

Section 8533 - Taxation, attachment and assignment of funds

Section 8533.1 - Approval of domestic relations orders

Section 8533.2 - Irrevocable beneficiary

Section 8533.3 - Irrevocable survivor annuitant

Section 8533.4 - Amendment of approved domestic relations orders

Section 8533.5 - Irrevocable successor payee

Section 8534 - Fraud and adjustment of errors

Section 8535 - Payments to school entities by Commonwealth

Section 8535.1 - Payments to school entities by Commonwealth commencing with the 2019-2020 school year

Section 8536 - Independent Fiscal Office study

Section 8537 - Internal Revenue Code limitations

Section 8538 - Public Pension Management and Asset Investment Review Commission

Section 8541 - Definitions

Section 8542 - Establishment

Section 8543 - Funding

Section 8544 - Participation criteria

Section 8545 - Preference

Section 8546 - Requirements and limitations of firms

Section 8547 - Administration