IC 5-10-11-5: Lump sum payment; dependency of children and stepchildren defined

Sec. 5. (a) The board shall pay a death benefit of:

(1) fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for a state employee who dies in the line of duty before July 1, 2013; and

(2) one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for a state employee who dies in the line of duty after June 30, 2013.

(b) The death benefit shall be paid in a lump sum as follows:

(1) To the surviving spouse.

(2) If there is no surviving spouse, to the surviving dependent children and surviving dependent stepchildren in equal shares.

For purposes of this subsection, a child or stepchild is dependent on a state employee if the state employee claimed the child or stepchild as a dependent on the federal income tax return filed by the state employee in the year before the year in which the state employee died.