(40 ILCS 5/12-190.1) (from Ch. 108 1/5, par. 12-190.1)
    Sec. 12-190.1. Payment of an annuity other than direct. The board, at the written direction and request of any annuitant, may, solely as an accommodation to the annuitant, pay the amounts due the annuitant to a bank, savings and loan association or any other financial institution insured by an agency of the federal government, for deposit to his or her account, or to a bank or trust company for deposit in a trust established by the annuitant for his or her benefit with such bank, savings and loan association or trust company. An annuitant may withdraw such direction at any time.
(Source: P.A. 86-1488.)