Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 27 - Personnel
Part 210 - PERS, Regulations for Retirement Plans Administered by the Board of Trustees
Chapter 61 - Compliance with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Requirements
Section 27-210-61-102 - Supplemental Legislative Retirement Plan

1. The PERS Board shall hold the assets of the Supplemental Legislative Retirement Plan (SLRP) in trust for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to participants and paying reasonable expenses of administration. The assets shall be maintained as a separate fund, separate from all other funds held by the PERS Board and shall be used only for the payment of benefits provided by Miss. Code Ann. § 25-11-301 et seq., (1972, as amended) or amendments thereto.

2. SLRP provides benefits that supplement the benefits provided under PERS. Accordingly, the provisions of Miss. Code Ann. § 25-11-1, et seq. are incorporated as part of SLRP to the extent they are not inconsistent with the provisions of Miss. Code Ann. § 25-11-301, et seq.

3. It shall be impossible by operation of SLRP, by termination, by power of revocation or amendment, by the happening of any contingency, by collateral arrangement or by other means, for any part of the corpus or income of the trust, or any funds contributed thereto, to inure to the benefit of any employer or otherwise be used for or diverted to purposes other than providing benefits to participants and beneficiaries and defraying reasonable expenses of administering the plan.

4. Benefits are provided in accordance with § 25-11-301 et seq. Forfeitures of accrued benefits resulting from members electing to receive refunds of employee contributions will not be applied to increase the benefits any member would otherwise receive under these provisions.

5. Benefits payable pursuant to § 25-11-301 et seq. shall be made in compliance with the limitations set forth in Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code and any regulations issued there under as applicable to governmental plans. Further, distributions made from SLRP shall conform to a good faith interpretation of Section 401(a)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code.

6. Any member of SLRP who became a member of PERS before July 1, 2007, who is not otherwise vested and who has at least four (4) years of membership service credit in PERS will be fully vested in his or her accrued benefit on attaining age 60. Any member of SLRP who became a member of PERS on or after July 1, 2007, who is not otherwise vested and who has at least eight (8) years of membership service credit in PERS will be fully vested in his or her accrued benefit on attaining age 60.