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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="29-106" title_number="29" title_name="Benefits Other Than Service Retirement Benefits" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Disability Benefits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only to members of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the Employees’ Retirement System; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the Teachers’ Retirement System.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An ordinary disability retirement allowance equals the greater of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a normal service retirement allowance; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the amount computed under subsection (c) or (d) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If a member is at least normal retirement age, the amount to be used under subsection (b)(2) of this section is 25% of the member’s average final compensation.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If a member is under normal retirement age, the amount to be used under subsection (b)(2) of this section is the lesser of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>25% of the member’s average final compensation; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the normal service retirement allowance that is computed by using:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the number of years of creditable service that the member would have received if the member continued employment until normal retirement age; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an average final compensation that the member would have received if the member continued employment without a change in earnable compensation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
