N.Y. Retirement & Social Security Law § 192: Supplemental retirement allowances of retired employees

§ 192. Supplemental retirement allowances of retired employees.

Notwithstanding any other provision of the retirement and social

security law, any state retired employee or state retired teacher, as

defined by section one hundred ninety-one of this article, who, unless

retired for disability, had at least five years of credited service at

the time of his retirement, shall be entitled to a supplemental pension

payment to be known as a supplemental retirement allowance payable

annually in monthly installments in accordance with the following

provisions of this section:

a. The supplemental retirement allowance provided for herein shall be

a percentage of the retirement allowance, computed without optional

modification, based on the year of his retirement, in accordance with

the schedule hereinafter set forth, provided, however, that no

supplemental retirement allowance shall:

(1) Exceed one thousand five hundred dollars per year, nor

(2) Together with the retirement allowance computed without optional

modification, and the primary benefit obtained under the federal old-age

survivors, and disability insurance system, exceed four thousand dollars

a year, nor

(3) In the case of any person under the age of sixty-two retired for

disability, together with the retirement allowance computed without

optional modification, the primary benefit obtained under the federal

old-age, survivors, and disability insurance system, and any earnings as

the result of his own employment including self employment, exceed four

thousand dollars a year, nor

(4) In the case of state retired employees, be paid for that portion

of the annuity based on additional contributions made pursuant to

section twenty-one (i) of the retirement and social security law, or

section fifty-eight of the civil service law since repealed, nor, in the

case of state retired teachers, that portion of the annuity based on

additional contributions made pursuant to subdivision three of section

five hundred sixteen of the education law, nor

(5) Be paid to any state retired employee or state retired teacher for

any period during which he returns to service with the state or a

political subdivision thereof other than service in employment

authorized by section two hundred eleven, section two hundred twelve or

section two hundred fourteen of this chapter.

b. The supplemental retirement allowance shall be computed in

accordance with the following schedule:

YEAR OF RETIREMENT PER CENTUM

1961 or thereafter none

1960 three

1959 five

1958 six

1957 nine

1956 thirteen

1955 fifteen

1954 fifteen

1953 fifteen

1952 sixteen

1951 eighteen

1950 twenty-eight

1949 twenty-eight

1948 twenty-eight

1947 thirty-eight

1946 fifty-eight

1945 seventy-two

1944 seventy-six

1943 seventy-nine

1942 ninety

1941 one-hundred-eleven

1940 one-hundred-twenty-two

Prior to 1940 one-hundred-twenty-two

c. Any such retired employee already receiving a supplemental pension

under other provisions of the retirement and social security law shall

continue to receive such supplemental pension or shall receive the

supplemental retirement allowance provided under this section, whichever

shall be greater.