| *Sec. 5. Status of employees who have retired and returned to covered employment |
| under the Maine State Retirement System; choice to retire rather than continue to work. |
| Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section |
| 17651 and section 17652, recipients of a service retirement |
| benefit from the Maine State Retirement System who have returned |
| to covered employment under the retirement system in a position |
| that would otherwise be covered by the retirement plan for state |
employees and teachers may not contribute to |
| retirement system, do not earn creditable service for their |
| employment after retirement and do not earn any additional |
| retirement benefits as a result of that employment. By retiring |
| from a position covered under the retirement system, an employee |
| exercises that employee's choice between continuing to work and |
| thereby continuing to accrue retirement service credit and, |
| potentially, an increased earnable compensation, and retiring, |
| with both service credit and earnable compensation thereby |
| becoming fixed.__The employee's retirement constitutes the |
| employee's knowing and voluntary waiver of any claim of any |
| nature under federal or state law with respect to retirement |
| system service credit or earnable compensation related to return |
to employment after retirement. They |
| retirement benefit from the retirement system may participate in |
| other retirement options available to similar employees, |
| including the state program of tax-deferred arrangements under |
| Title 5, chapter 67, at the discretion of their employer. For |
| purposes of participation in the state employee health insurance |
| program pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section |
| 285 or in dental health insurance coverage offered by the State, |
| recipients of a service retirement benefit under the Maine State |
| Retirement System who are retired state employees and who are |
| reemployed as state employees must be treated as retirees under |
| section 285, subsection 1-A for purposes of eligibility for |
| coverage under the group plan. A recipient of a service |
| retirement benefit under the Maine State Retirement System who is |
| a retired teacher and who returns to work as a teacher under this |
| Act is eligible for coverage under the group health insurance |
| plan for active teachers in the school administrative unit in |
| which newly employed. For purposes of participation in the group |
| accident and sickness or health insurance for retired teachers |
| pursuant to Title 20-A, section 13451, a recipient of a service |
| retirement benefit under the Maine State Retirement System who is |
| a retired teacher who returns to work under this Act is eligible |
| upon ceasing work to return to coverage under the group health |
| insurance plan in effect for active teachers in the school unit |
| from which the teacher originally retired, including state |
| payment of a percentage of the premium cost under section 13451. |
