Nuzzi v. The Board of Trustees of the Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois

Former public school district superintendent and principal were awarded disability benefits, based on PTSD, by Teachers' Retirement System (TRS). Four months later, both began working as adjunct web-based instructors for private university. TRS correctly determined that Plaintiffs were not longer eligible for disability benefits under Pension Code, as they were both employed in equivalent capacity as a teacher in a private university, and thus were required to reimburse TRS for benefits paid after their employment for university began. (POPE and HOLDER WHITE, concurring.)