A state employees disability insurance program is created, which shall be administered by the director of the department of personnel and which shall provide disability benefits in an amount and for the employees as provided in this section. The monthly disability benefits shall provide twenty percent of monthly earnings if employed less than one year, forty percent of monthly earnings if employed one year or more but less than two years, and sixty percent of monthly earnings thereafter, reduced by primary and family social security determined at the time social security disability payments commence, workers' compensation if applicable, and any other state- sponsored sickness or disability benefits payable. However, the amount of benefits payable under the Iowa public employees' retirement system pursuant to chapter 97B shall not reduce the benefits payable pursuant to this section. Subsequent social security increases shall not be used to further reduce the insurance benefits payable. As used in this section, "primary and family social security" shall not include social security benefits awarded to a disabled adult child of the disabled state employee who does not reside with the disabled state employee if the social security benefits were awarded to the disabled adult child prior to the approval of the state employee's benefits under this section, regardless of whether the United States social security administration records the benefits to the social security number of the disabled adult child, the disabled state employee, or any other family member, and such social security benefits shall not reduce the benefits payable pursuant to this section. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, "adult" means a person who is eighteen years of age or older. State employees shall receive credit for the time they were continuously employed prior to and on July 1, 1974. The following provisions apply to the employees disability insurance program:
1. Waiting period, ninety working days of continuous sickness or accident disability or the expiration of accrued sick leave, whichever is greater.
2. Maximum period benefits paid for both accident or sickness disability:
a. If the disability occurs prior to the time the employee attains the age of sixty-one years, the maximum benefit period shall end sixty months after continuous benefit payments begin or on the date on which the employee attains the age of sixty- five years, whichever is later.
b. If the disability occurs on or after the time the employee attains the age of sixty-one years but prior to age sixty-nine, the maximum benefit period shall end sixty months after continuous benefit payments begin or on the date on which the employee attains the age of seventy years, whichever is earlier.
c. If the disability occurs on or after the time the employee attains the age of sixty-nine years, the maximum benefit period shall end twelve months after continuous benefit payments begin.
3. Minimum and maximum benefits, not less than fifty dollars per month and not exceeding two thousand dollars per month.
4. All permanent full-time state employees shall be covered under the employees disability insurance program, except board members and members of commissions who are not full-time state employees, and state employees who on July 1, 1974, are under another disability program financed in whole or in part by the state. For purposes of this section, members of the general assembly serving on or after January 1, 1989, are eligible for the plan during their tenure in office, on the basis of enrollment rules established for full-time state employees excluded from collective bargaining as provided in chapter 20.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 79.20]
84 Acts, ch 1146, § 2; 86 Acts, ch 1245, § 235; 88 Acts, ch 1267, §15, 16 ~IC93, § 70A.20 ~I93 Acts, ch 7, § 1; 94 Acts, ch 1022, §1
Referred to in § 602.11103
1993 and 1994 amendments to unnumbered paragraph 1 retroactive to July 1, 1990; 93 Acts, ch 7, § 2; 94 Acts, ch 1022, §2
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