§ 11:543 — Collection of benefits not due

The board of trustees shall use all reasonable means to collect benefits paid by the system to an individual who was not due the benefit. The right to collect any benefit paid to an individual to whom the benefit was not due shall prescribe after a period of three years has elapsed from the date of the payment, except in case of fraud. If the individual receiving the payment committed a fraud against the system, then the collection of such fraudulent payment shall prescribe after a period of ten years from the date of payment.

Legislative History

Acts 2006, No. 770, §1, eff. June 30, 2006.