1. A vested or retired member who has five or more full calendar years of covered wages and who at any time was in full-time volunteer public service, upon submitting verification of the full-time volunteer public service and the dates of the service, may make contributions to the system for up to the lesser of twenty quarters of service credit for such volunteer public service or the entire period of the volunteer public service, in increments of one or more calendar quarters, and receive credit for membership service and prior service for the period of time for which the contributions are made. For purposes of this section, "full-time volunteer public service" means service in the federal peace corps program.
2. The contributions required to be made for purposes of this section shall be in an amount equal to the actuarial cost of the service purchase. For purposes of this subsection, the actuarial cost of the service purchase is an amount determined by the department in accordance with actuarial tables, as reported to the department by the system's actuary, which reflects the actuarial cost necessary to fund an increased retirement allowance resulting from the purchase of additional service.
3. The verification of the full-time volunteer public service and the dates of such service shall be made by the department prior to receiving contributions from the member.
4. A member eligible for an increased retirement allowance because of the payment of contributions under this section is entitled to receipt of retroactive adjustment payments for no more than six months immediately preceding the month in which the member pays contributions under this section.
5. A purchase of service made in accordance with this section by a retired reemployed member shall be applied to either the member's original retirement allowance, or to the member's reemployment service, whichever is more beneficial to the member. If applied to a member's original retirement allowance, or to the member's reemployment service after the retirement allowance payments for such service begin, the member is eligible to receive retroactive adjustment payments for no more than six months prior to completion of the purchase.
6. The department shall ensure that the member, in exercising an option provided in this section, does not exceed the amount of annual additions to a member's account permitted pursuant to section 415 of the federal Internal Revenue Code.
2000 Acts, ch 1077, §71
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