Are there different types of disability retirement?
There are two types of disability retirement, ordinary and accidental (special disability for members of the State Police Retirement System). • Ordinary Disability covers any permanently disabling physical or mental condition (includes occupational diseases). • Accidental Disability covers injuries that you sustain as the direct result of a specific accident(s) which occurs at a definite time and place (does not include occupational disease) while you are performing assigned duties. For State Police and Law Enforcement Officers Pension System (LEOPS): To be eligible for special/accidental disability, you must be totally and permanently disabled from performing your duties. Your incapacity for duty must have arisen out of, or in the course of, the actual performance of duty. The incapacity must not be the result of willful negligence. • Who may apply? A disability retirement claim must be submitted by an eligible member of one of our plans. Retirees are not eligible to apply. Also, with
Yes. There are service-connected and nonservice-connected disability retirements. Service-connected disability retirement is based upon a disability caused by an illness or injury related to the member’s employment. Nonservice-connected disability retirement is based upon a disability caused by an illness or injury not related to the member’s employment.
