REVISED JUDICIAL PENSION BENEFITS - SURVIVOR BENEFITS
If you die prior to making this election, your survivor will receive a pension equal to two-thirds of the pension you would have been eligible to receive.
If you die while an active member covered by the Revised Judicial Pension Plan, your eligible survivor will be paid a survivor's pension beginning the month following your death.
The amount of the pension will be two-thirds of the service pension you would have been eligible to receive.
If you die while receiving a service or disability pension, the pension payable to your eligible survivor or survivors, beginning the month following your death, will be equal to either one-half or two-thirds of the disability or service pension you are receiving, depending on the survivor election made at time of retirement.
Upon the death after retirement of a member covered by the revised plan, who has a vested right to a pension, but who dies before reaching the age of 62, a monthly survivor's pension shall be payable beginning with the month during which the member would have reached the age of 62 in an amount equal to one-half of the pension for which the judge would have been eligible at the age of 62.
- Surviving spouse, Surviving spouse, provided such person had been married to the deceased member for at least one year before the date of death.
- Unmarried child or children either under age 18 or between age 18 and 22, and attending school on a full-time basis, or over age 18 but permanently disabled before age 18;
- Dependent parent who was receiving one-half of his or her support from you at the time of your death.
You may change the order of priority by filing a notarized form with the Board of Pension Trustees.
