The bill also makes several technical changes. The benefits are paid for from the State Employees Retirement Fund. Firemen Some towns participate by local ordinance in the Policemen and Firemen Survivors' Benefit Fund, which the State Retirement Commission administers.
Benefits are payable on the death of a participant, either before or after retirement.
They receive additional benefits on behalf of dependent children until the children reach 18. This bill contains contradictory language. Currently, if a surviving spouse receiving benefits from the Policemen and Firemen Survivors' Benefit Fund dies or remarries while there are still dependent children, the percentage of compensation for the dependent children increases. But other language in that same section still permits increased payments to remarried spouses on behalf of dependent children.