Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 590 - Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System
Chapter 15 - Uniform Retirement System for Justices and Judges
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
Section 590:15-1-18 - Federal qualified military service rights

(a) Additional benefits if provided by Plan. Effective with respect to deaths occurring on or after January 1, 2007, while a member is performing qualified military service (as defined in Chapter 43 of Title 38, United States Code), to the extent required by Section 401(a)(37) of the Internal Revenue Code, survivors of a member in a State or local retirement or pension system, are entitled to any additional benefits that the system would otherwise provide if the member had resumed employment and then died, such as accelerated vesting or survivor benefits that are contingent on the member's death while employed.

(b) Differential wage payments. Beginning January 1, 2009, to the extent required by Sections 3401(h) and 414(u)(12) of the Internal Revenue Code, an individual receiving differential wage payments (while the individual is performing qualified military service as defined in Chapter 43 of Title 38, United States Code) from an employer shall be treated as employed by that employer and the differential wage payment shall be treated as earned compensation. This provision shall be applied to all similarly situated individuals in a reasonably equivalent manner.