North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 71 - Retirement Board
Article 71-01 - General Administration
Chapter 71-01-03 - Confidential Information Requests
Section 71-01-03-04 - Treatment, payment, or operations

1. Information related to enrollment, participation, benefits, or contributions may be shared with participating employers or public employees retirement system contractors for purposes of maintaining a member's participation and benefits in the public employees retirement system programs. Such sharing of information is limited to that information that is necessary to assure that a member's participation and benefits are properly handled. All such information remains confidential whether in the possession of the public employees retirement system, its participating employers, or its contractors.

2. Information relating to eligibility for retirement benefits may be shared with the social security administration and such other organizations to ensure that the member is still alive and continues to be eligible.

3. Information necessary for the administration and operation of the program may be shared with the public employees retirement system attorney and consultants. To the extent such information is shared it remains confidential.

4. Information relating to the death benefits and beneficiary designations of a deceased member may be shared with an ex spouse if listed as a beneficiary on a designation of beneficiary form, or any other person listed as a beneficiary on a designation of beneficiary form, subsequent to the death of the member, but in advance of a final determination regarding the applicable designated beneficiaries, only to the extent necessary to accurately identify the appropriate designated beneficiaries.

All other requests for information under this section must first be submitted to the executive director and then reviewed by the public employees retirement system board.