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Home→Agencies→Public Pensions→Louisiana→When someone dies

State Public Pensions in Louisiana: when someone dies

A 4-step process for Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (LASERS) and Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL) after a death in Louisiana.

OverviewWhen someone dies

Public Pensions

Louisiana

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Administering agency

Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (LASERS) and Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL)

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Verified May 2026

Steps to take

  1. Identify whether the deceased was a member of LASERS (state employee) or TRSL (teacher/education employee).
  2. Report the death to the system so the member's pension payments stop.
  3. Confirm the beneficiary designation and, for a retiree, the benefit option the member elected.
  4. File the survivor or death-benefit application with the documents the system requires (TRSL uses an Application for Survivor Benefits).

Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (LASERS) and Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL)

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Frequently asked questions

Contact LASERS at 225-922-0600 or 800-256-3000 for a state employee, or TRSL at 225-925-6446 or 1-877-275-8775 for a teacher or other education employee. Each system handles survivor and death-benefit claims for its members.

The benefit that continues depends on the option the retiree elected at retirement. Under a maximum, single-life option, payments stop at death and only any member contributions not yet paid out remain due; survivor options instead continue a benefit to a named beneficiary.

Survivor benefits may be payable to a surviving spouse and to minor or disabled children when an eligible active LASERS or TRSL member dies before retirement. The amount depends on the member's service and the system's rules.

Public Pensions

Louisiana

lasersonline.org→

Administering agency

Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System (LASERS) and Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL)

WebsiteVisit website →
Verified May 2026