NY Ret & SS L § 162 (2021)
2021 New York Laws RSS - Retirement and Social Security Article 4 - Supplemental Pension Act 162 - Retired Employees and Certain Widows and Dependents Eligible for Supplemental Pensions.

§  162.  Retired  employees and certain widows and dependents eligible for supplemental pensions. 1. State retired employees and state  retired teachers  shall be entitled to receive, one month after such retirement, monthly supplemental pension payments as provided in this article.   2. Any municipality is hereby authorized and empowered  to  adopt  and amend  a  local  law,  ordinance  or  resolution  providing  for monthly supplemental pension payments both to local  retired  employees  thereof and  local  retired  teachers  of a school district located therein. Any county, city, town or village is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to adopt  and  amend  local laws, ordinances and resolutions, effective for specified periods  of  not  to  exceed  three  years  each,  subject  to extension  or renewal for specified periods of not to exceed three years each, to provide for monthly supplemental pension payments  for  widows, dependent  children or dependent parents of deceased members or deceased retired members of the uniformed force of a police  department  or  fire department.  Any such local law, ordinance or resolution shall prescribe equitable methods for providing supplemental pensions and computing  the amounts thereof and may contain provisions necessary and appropriate for proper  administration,  including  a  provision requiring the filing of verified applications for such payments.   3. The monthly supplemental pensions paid to local  retired  employees shall not exceed the monthly supplemental pensions paid to state retired employees  pursuant  to  this article. The monthly supplemental pensions paid to local retired teachers shall not exceed the monthly supplemental pensions paid to state retired teachers pursuant to  this  article.  The total of all the annual retirement allowances or pension payments to the widow or widower, dependent children and dependent parents of a deceased member  or  deceased  retired  member of the uniformed force of a police department or a fire department shall not be increased by more  than  an amount which, when added to all annual retirement allowances and pension payments  being  made  to  all  of  such  beneficiaries,  and the annual retirement allowances or pension payments which could have been made  to them  in  lieu  of  any  lump  sum  settlement that was made instead, on account of the death of any such police officer or firefighter, by  such county,  city,  town or village, or by a retirement or pension system or plan on behalf of the county, city, town or village, shall not exceed  a total of twelve hundred dollars per annum.   4. As used herein the following terms shall include:  (a)  "Widow".  Only  the  widow,  who has not remarried, of a deceased member or deceased retired member of the uniformed force of a police  or fire department;  (b) "Dependent children". Only children under the age of eighteen of a deceased  member  or deceased retired member of the uniformed force of a police or fire department;  (c) "Dependent parents". Only a father or mother, or both collectively if both are living, of the deceased member or deceased retired member of the uniformed force of  a  police  or  fire  department,  where  neither dependent  widow  nor dependent children under age eighteen survive such member or retired member.