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LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS BENEFITS
Benefits
are available to sworn full-time law enforcement officers with the power of
arrest & primary duty of enforcing criminal laws on public
property.
Separate
Insurance Benefit Plan: Automatic
enrollment. The plan provides certain temporary disability and death
benefits to qualified active and retired participants. The company that
currently provides coverage is the Hartford Insurance Company. Their
toll-free telephone number is 1-888-232-5340.
Separation
Allowance for Local Officers:
§ 143‑166.42. Special
separation allowances for local officers.
(a)On
and after January 1, 1987, every sworn law enforcement officer as defined by
G.S. 128‑21(11b) or G.S. 143‑166.50(a)(3) employed by a local government
employer who qualifies under this section shall receive, beginning in the
month in which the officer retires on a basic service retirement under the
provisions of G.S. 128‑27(a), an annual separation allowance equal to eighty‑five hundredths percent (0.85%) of the
annual equivalent of the base rate of compensation most recently applicable
to the officer for each year of creditable service. The allowance shall be
paid in equal installments on the payroll frequency used by the employer. To
qualify for the allowance, the officer shall:
(1) Have (i) completed 30 or more years of creditable service or
(ii) have attained 55 years of age
and completed five or more years of creditable service; and
(2) Not
have attained 62 years of age; and
(3) Have
completed at least five years of continuous service as a law enforcement
officer as herein defined immediately preceding a service retirement. Any
break in the continuous service required by this subsection because of
disability retirement or disability salary continuation benefits shall not
adversely affect an officer's qualification to receive the allowance,
provided the officer returns to service within 45 days after the disability
benefits cease and is otherwise qualified to receive the allowance.
(b)As
used in this section, "creditable service" means the service for
which credit is allowed under the retirement system of which the officer is a
member, provided that at least fifty percent (50%) of the service is as a law
enforcement officer as herein defined.
(c)Payment
to a retired officer under the provisions of this section shall cease at the
first of:
(1) The
death of the officer;
(2) The
last day of the month in which the officer attains 62 years of age; or
(3) The
first day of reemployment by a local government employer in any capacity.
Notwithstanding the
provisions of subdivision (3) of this subsection, a local government employer
may employ retired officers in a public safety position in a capacity not
requiring participation in the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement
System, and doing so shall not cause payment to cease to those officers under
the provisions of this section.
(d)
This section does not affect the benefits to which an individual may be
entitled from State, local, federal, or private retirement systems. The
benefits payable under this section shall not be subject to any increases in
salary or retirement allowances that may be authorized by local government
employers or for retired employees of local governments.
(e)
The governing body of each local employer shall determine the eligibility of
employees for the benefits provided herein.
(f)
The governing body of each local employer shall make the payments set forth in
subsection (a) of this section to those persons certified under subsection
(e) of this section from funds available. (1985 (Reg. Sess., 1986), c. 1019, s. 2; 2009‑396,
s. 1.)
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State Death Benefits:
Benefit to eligible survivor (spouse, children or parent of LEO killed in
line of duty).
Educational Benefits:
Automatic enrollment. Tuition waiver for eligible survivor of LEO killed in
line of duty or sustaining traumatic injury on or after 10.
Additional information may be found in the retirement handbook for
Local Law Enforcement Officers or the County Human Resources Office.
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