N.Y. Retirement & Social Security Law § 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.