Snizaski v. Public School Employees' Retirement Board

OPINION

Justice McCAFFERY.

The issue before this Court is as follows:

Whether the Commonwealth Court correctly interpreted 24 Pa.C.S. § 8507(e) to require in this case that a Public School Employees’ Retirement System nomination of benefits form must have been completed entirely in the hand of the member/decedent in order to effectuate a valid change of beneficiary designation.

Snizaski v. Public School Employees’ Retirement Board, 606 Pa. 87, 995 A.2d 334 (2010) (per curiam).

We conclude that the Commonwealth Court erred, and hold that the Public School Employees’ Retirement Board (the “Board”)…