1. ...regulations of the pension and benefit funds, plans, and programs of The United Methodist Church.
2. a) Service rendered prior to January 1, 1982, by an ordained
minister a clergyperson or local pastor in The
United Methodist Church,...
b) Pension for full-
time
service rendered by an ordained minister a clergyperson
or local pastor in The United Methodist
Church...provided, however, that the pension of a clergyperson
member whose membership was terminated...
c) Pensions earned by bishops (elected by a Jurisdictional
Conference), ordained ministers and other clergy,
and local pastors, and protection benefits for such
bishops, ordained ministers, and eligible local pastors and
other clergy in The United Methodist Church...
3. a) By an ordained minister a clergyperson who
is a probationary member...(1) as pastor, associate or assistant pastor, or
other ordained minister clergyperson in a pastoral
charge;...(4) as a student appointed to attend school, but only if the
ordained minister clergyperson serves
subsequently...and provided further, that, if a clergyperson
member is again appointed to attend school after having served
under appointment for six consecutive years as an
ordained minister a clergy member in full
connection...three additional years under appointment to attend school if the
ordained minister clergyperson serves subsequently with
pension credit in an Annual Conference...(5) as an ordained
minister a clergyperson on sabbatical leave,...(6) as
an ordained minister a clergyperson on disability
leave...
4. a) Normal Conditions.----
The
normal conditions required of a clergyperson member or a local
pastor for full pension credit shall be:
d) Service as a chaplain on full-
time
duty prior to December 31, 1946 January 1, 1947, which
previous legislation...
e) ...allocated to the conference or conferences in which the
ordained minister clergy member shall first thereafter
render...
g) ...pension credit may be granted to a clergy member in full connection, probationary member or associate member of the conference on account of...
i) In the event of retirement under ¶ 452.2b, the
actuarially reduced pension or subsequent pension...shall be
determined by multiplying reducing the pension (years
times rate) by a percentage factor; such percentage factor shall be the
greater of 100 percent minus the lesser of (1) one-
half
percent per month or fraction of a month of age less than sixty-
five
years attained on the date the actuarially reduced pension is to commence (or
the date of such annuity rate increase), or (2) 100 percent
minus one-
half
percent per month for each month of difference between the assumed date at
which pension payments would have been permitted by retirement under
¶ 452.2c by completion of forty years of service under
appointment would have been completed and the actual date the
actuarially reduced pension or annuity rate increase is to commence under
¶ 452.2b. Effective at the close...
5. a)(2) ...or a combination thereof, in one Annual Conference
and has been recognized by an Annual Conference as a retired local
pastor.
b) ...who has attained the age of voluntary retirement for a conference
clergy member and who has been retired by the denomination, providing
the ordained minister is not receiving a pension for the same period of service
from another denomination. (See also §3c above.)
6. The Annual Conference, on recommendation of the conference Board of
Pensions, shall have the power to revise, correct, or adjust an
ordained minister's a clergyperson's record of pension credit
as set forth in the minister's his or her service
record.
7. [Second sentence] Such annuity rate shall be determined each year
without restriction, other than that contained in ¶ 1606.2b, but
it may remain the same or be increased without restriction. It
is recommended that such rate be not less than 1 percent of the average
compensation of the conference as computed by the General Board of Pension and
Health Benefits. However in no case may the annuity rate be less than
eight-tenths of one percent of the average compensation of the conference.
The annuity rate for approved service of local pastors shall also be determined
by the conference each year and may shall be the same
as the rate for service of conference clergy members
in full connection, probationary members and associate members,
but it shall be no less than 75 percent of that rate. A successor
conference resulting from a merger involving a former Central Jurisdictional
Conference shall establish for all for whom it has pension responsibility the
same rate for past service of conference clergy members
in full connection, probationary members and associate members in the
Central Jurisdiction...11. (a) An Annual Conference may not
make any arrangement with a life insurance company for the purchase of
annuities for the benefit of individual effective or retired
ministers clergy or take any steps...
(b) [Delete.]
12. d)(1) Prior to January 1, 1982, a conference subject to the laws of
the state in which it is incorporated shall have power to require from its
clergy members and local pastors who are serving with pension
credit...
(b) ...as the ground of any special or additional annuity claim of a
member clergyperson against the conference; neither
shall it prevent disallowance of a member's
clergyperson's annuity claim by conference action.
(c) The conference may fix a financial penalty for failure of the
member clergyperson to pay.
(d) ...after hearing has been given to the member
clergyperson, in case such hearing is requested.
(e) Ordained ministers Clergy entering a
conference...the annual contribution required from a clergyperson
member of the conference or a local pastor shall not exceed an
amount equal to 3 percent of the ordained minister's
clergyperson's or local pastor's support.
(2) If an ordained minister a clergyperson is
participating in one of the pension funds, plans, or programs administered by
the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits, the minister
that individual shall not be required...
12. e) ...Retired Ministers Day, in honor of the retired
ordained ministers clergy, their spouses, and the
surviving spouses of ordained ministers clergy in
recognition...
13. A conference Board of Pensions may make special grants to clergy
members or former clergy members and
to local pastors or former local pastors of an Annual Conference...
14. a) A former clergy member in full connection, probationary member
or associate member of an Annual Conference...following the date the former
minister clergyperson attains age sixty-
two,
based on the years of service approved for pension credit. Such former
ordained minister's clergyperson's pension shall be
based on all years of service with pension credit if the former
minister clergyperson had twenty or more such
years....
b) A former clergy member in full connection, probationary member or
associate member of an Annual Conference...pension beginning the first day
of any month coinciding with or following the date the former
minister clergyperson attains age sixty-
two...
c) Effective at the close of the 1976 General Conference, former clergy members in full connection, probationary members, and associate members of the Annual Conference...
d) Clergy members in full connection, probationary members and associate members in an Annual Conference...
16. a) An ordained minister A clergyperson who
has been granted the retired relation...Such minister
clergyperson shall notify...
b) In the event of the death of such ordained minister
clergyperson prior to the annuity starting date...of the
ordained minister's clergyperson's formula
benefit....
20. ...responsibility to enroll ordained ministers
clergy and local pastors of the Annual Conference...
General Conference Webmaster: Susan Brumbaugh
PETS Creator: John Brawn
Petition Text: 21486-FA-1606.1-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference