Legal Opinion
Tibbles v. Teachers Retirement System of Georgia
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided July 13, 2015No. S15A0366PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Blackwell, Justice.
Following 31 years of service as a teacher in the public schools, Carol Tibbies retired in April 1994. She is a member of the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia, and as such, she is entitled by law to annual retirement allowance in an amount
equal to 2 percent of [her] average compensation over the two consecutive years of membership service producing the highest such average, multiplied by the number of [her] years of creditable service, not to exceed 40.
OCGA § 47-3-120 (a) (2). To calculate the amount of the allowance to which Tibbies was entitled, the System looked to…
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