Chapter 21. Pre-1972 Benefits of California Education Code >> Division 1. >> Title 1. >> Part 13. >> Chapter 21.

(a) If, prior to attaining the age of 55 years, a person who is entitled to receive a retirement allowance because of his or her retirement for disability prior to July 1, 1972, engages in a gainful occupation, the board shall reduce the portion of his or her monthly retirement allowance that is not provided by his or her accumulated contributions, to an amount, which when added to the compensation earned monthly by him or her, does not exceed the amount of the compensation that would be earnable by a person holding the same or an equal position as or to that which he or she held at the time of his or her retirement, and in the same salary step or rating, or if no such position then exists, the compensation earnable immediately prior to its abolition.
  (b) If his or her earnings are further altered, the board shall further alter that portion of his or her retirement allowance to the lower of the following amounts:
  (1) The amount of that portion of his or her retirement allowance as it would be if not reduced under this section.
  (2) An amount that, when added to the compensation earned by him or her, equals the amount of the compensation that would be earnable by a person holding the same or an equal position as or to that which he or she held at the time of his or her retirement, and in the same salary step or rating, or if no such position then exists, the compensation earnable immediately prior to its abolition.
  (c) For purposes of this section, the retirement allowance subject to adjustment is the unmodified allowance irrespective of the option elected.
  (d) When he or she attains the age of 55 years, his or her retirement allowance shall be made equal to the amount it would be if not reduced under this section, and may not again be modified under this section. Section 24015 does not apply to those persons affected by this section.

The board may require any member who retired for disability, prior to July 1, 1972, and who has not attained 58 years of age, to undergo a medical examination. If the examination, together with other available information, shows to the satisfaction of the board that the member is no longer disabled, the retirement allowance shall be terminated. Should any member retired for disability refuse to submit to medical examination, as provided in this section, the disability retirement allowance shall be terminated and all rights of the member in the disability retirement allowance shall be revoked.

Benefits payable on account of deaths that occurred prior to July 1, 1972, and provided under former Section 14193, as it read prior to July 1, 1972, shall be continued. Former Sections 14195 and 14196 as they read prior to that date shall continue to apply to these payments.

Survivor benefits payable on account of deaths that occurred prior to July 1, 1972, shall be continued in the amounts and under the conditions stated in former Sections 14186 and 14189, as they read prior to July 1, 1972.

Upon termination of the retirement allowance that began to accrue prior to July 1, 1972, the member's individual account shall be credited with amounts that are the actuarial equivalents at that time, as based on the disabled life, where retirement had been for disability, or on the active life where the retirement had been for service of the allowance and annuities being paid from accumulated retirement contributions, accumulated annuity deposit contributions, or accumulated tax-sheltered annuity contributions. These credited amounts shall not exceed the amount of his or her accumulated contributions as they were in those accounts at the date of retirement.