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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="21-404" title_number="21" title_name="State Retirement and Pension System" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Optional Forms of Allowance">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section does not apply to the Judges’ Retirement System.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>To change a designated beneficiary, a retiree shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>complete the appropriate form that the Board of Trustees provides; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>file the form with the Board of Trustees.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Subject to subsections (d) and (e) of this section, if a retiree changes a designated beneficiary, the Board of Trustees shall recompute the allowance for the election based on the value of the balance in the retiree’s annuity reserve and pension reserve when the change is made.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies only to a retiree who elected the optional form of allowance payable under § 21–403(b) (Option 2), § 21–403(c) (Option 3), § 21–403(e) (Option 5), or § 21–403(f) (Option 6) of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A retiree may rescind a request to change the designated beneficiary and restore the retiree’s prior designation of beneficiary by sending written notice to the State Retirement Agency that is received by the State Retirement Agency before the second allowance payment normally becomes due after the change of beneficiary.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A retiree who rescinds a change of designated beneficiary in a timely manner under paragraph (2) of this subsection shall receive, after the rescission, the allowance payable prior to the change of designated beneficiary, without retroactive adjustment of any allowance payment made while the rescinded designation of beneficiary was in effect.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>This subsection applies to a retiree if:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the retiree elected the optional form of allowance payable under § 21–403(e) (Option 5) or § 21–403(f) (Option 6) of this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the retiree’s designated beneficiary dies before the retiree; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>after the death of the designated beneficiary, the retiree elects to change the designated beneficiary.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board of Trustees shall recompute the reduced allowance payable to a retiree and the retiree’s new designated beneficiary using:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the retiree’s basic allowance at the time of the new beneficiary designation;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the retiree’s age at the time of the new beneficiary designation; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the age of the new designated beneficiary.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
