Act Governing Retirement, Severance, and Bereavement Compensation for the Teaching and Other Staff Members of Public Schools Article 69

The right of a staff member or his or her survivors to claim pension and benefit payments may not be assigned, offset, attached, or provided as security. However, this restriction shall not apply in the case of distribution of a share of a staff member's pension under Article 83.A recipient of pension or benefit payments may open a personal account at a financial institution to be used exclusively for the deposit of pension or benefit payments.Funds deposited in a personal account referred to in the preceding paragraph may not be offset, attached, provided as security, or be an object of compulsory execution.If a recipient of pension or benefit payments has received any payment from a false claim or has received any excess amount, the paying or disbursing agency shall verify and recover the falsely claimed or excess amount received, and shall not be be subject to the restrictions of paragraph 1 and the preceding paragraph.