McDermott v. Minnesota Teachers Retirement Fund

OPINION

HALBROOKS, Judge

Relators James Patrick McDermott and Robert John Gunderson challenge a decision by the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota Teachers Retirement Association (TRA Board) determining that the reemployed-annuitant earnings limitation set out in Minn.Stat. §§ 354.41, subd. 4b, 354.44, subd. 5 (1998), applies to relators’ entitlement to receive retirement benefits from the Teachers Retirement Association (TRA). Relators argue that because their current employer, Education Minnesota (EdMn), does not employ “persons who are covered by the Minnesota teachers retirement association…