For retirees receiving more than one benefit entitled to retiree health insurance

credit. 1. If a retiree is receiving more than one benefit from the public employees retirement system, or other participating system; one as a surviving spouse, and the other based upon the retiree's own service credit, the retiree health insurance credit for each benefit will be combined with an effective date based on eligibility in accordance with North Dakota Century Code section 54-52.1-03.3. 2. If the retiree was employed by a political subdivision which does not participate in the public employees retirement system health plan, and is drawing a retirement benefit or a surviving spouse benefit, the individual may receive the retiree health insurance credit as any other retiree based upon a retiree premium. 3. If a husband and wife are both receiving a benefit from a retirement system that provides the retiree health insurance credit, the retiree health insurance credit will be applied as follows: a. Each will have their respective retiree health insurance credit reimbursed for their respective premiums. b. If only one retiree takes a family health plan under the uniform group health insurance program, they may make application with the public employees retirement system to combine retiree health insurance credits. Retirees are responsible for making application with the public employees retirement system to combine and discontinue combining retiree health insurance credits. 4. Retirees with service credit in more than one of the participating retirement systems will have their respective retiree health insurance credit for each benefit combined with an effective date based on eligibility in accordance with North Dakota Century Code section 54-52.1-03.1. Surviving spouses receiving multiple benefits from retirement systems that provide the retiree health insurance credit will have their respective retiree health insurance credit for each benefit combined with an effective date based on eligibility in accordance with North Dakota Century Code section 54-52.1-03.3.