2023 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.