{"id":7342,"date":"2019-11-25T17:09:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T22:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7342"},"modified":"2020-09-03T15:40:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T19:40:23","slug":"sers-change-of-beneficiary-not-effective-until-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7342","title":{"rendered":"SERS Change of Beneficiary Not Effective until Received"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A change of beneficiary for death benefits under the State Employees&#8217; Retirement System (SERS) was not effective until received, and so ineffective when the employee died after mailing the change of beneficiary and before it was received by SERS.  <em>Estate of Lynn D. Wilson v. SERS<\/em>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=11092941062267938931\" target=\"_blank\">219 A.3d 1141<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/J-28-2019mo%20-%2010422881287744953.pdf\">21 WAP 2018<\/a> (Pa. 11\/20\/2019).  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A change of beneficiary for death benefits under the State Employees&#8217; Retirement System (SERS) was not effective until received, and so ineffective when the employee died after mailing the change of beneficiary and before it was received by SERS. Estate &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=7342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[315],"class_list":["post-7342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-beneficiary-designations","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8155,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions\/8155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}