Kayla Vaughn v. Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. When' a member of Mississippi’s Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) chooses to receive reduced monthly retirement payments throughout her life in exchange for' guaranteed payments to her'beneficiary for twenty years, who gets the remaining guaranteed payments if both the retiree and the beneficiary die before the twenty-year period runs out? According-to PERS, the retiree’s surviving family members do. But appellant Kayla Vaughn says PERS is wrong. Instead, Kayla argues PERS is directed by statute to pay her, the beneficiary’s surviving family member,…