Division of Administrative Hearings, Florida
Filed: Apr. 15, 2020
Whether Petitioner, Rebecca Hernandez ("Hernandez"), is entitled to the $22,943.81 her late mother, Darlene Rice ("Rice" or "Mother"), paid to buy into the Florida Retirement System Pension Plan ("Pension Plan"), as well as other monies transferred from Rice's Investment Plan account to the Pension Plan account, or is Hernandez only entitled to the $2,654.17 in employee contributions that Rice paid into the Pension Plan while an active member of that plan.Beneficiary was entitled to recover her mother's FRS death benefits, including (1) mother's vested contributions from her prior Investment Plan account and (2) the "buy in" fee her mother paid to transfer into the Pension Plan.
