County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: disability retirement: modification of allowance.

The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) authorizes counties to establish retirement systems pursuant to its provisions in order to provide pension benefits to county and district employees. CERL permits a member or retired member to modify his or her election of a specific retirement allowance until the first payment of any retirement allowance is made. CERL permits a member who is eligible to retire for service to do so when an application for disability retirement is pending and provides that the type of retirement allowance selected at the time of retirement for service is not binding if the member is awarded a disability retirement. This bill would specify that a member who applies for disability and is granted a service retirement pending a determination of disability may change the type of allowance that he or she elected at the time of the service retirement, as specified.