{"data":{"id":"us-mt/19-13-1007","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"19-13-1007","heading":"Minimum benefit adjustment.","body":"(1) The following applies to a member with 10 or more years of membership service who has not elected to be covered under 19-13-1010:\n(a) For the member or the member's surviving spouse or dependent children, the service retirement benefit provided in 19-13-704, the disability retirement benefit provided in 19-13-803, and the survivorship benefit provided in 19-13-902 may not be less than one-half the monthly compensation paid to a newly confirmed, active firefighter of the employer that last employed the member as a firefighter, as provided each year in the budget of that employer.\n(b) If after a member retires, the employer that last employed the member no longer employs a full-paid firefighter, the member's or survivor's benefit under subsection (1)(a) must be adjusted on the basis of the average monthly compensation paid to all newly confirmed full-paid firefighters, as provided each year in the budgets of those employers that participate in the retirement system and employ a full-paid firefighter.\n(2) If the employment of a vested member hired before July 1, 1981, who has not elected to be covered under 19-13-1010 is involuntarily discontinued because of the termination of employment of all full-paid firefighters of the employer that employed the member, the member's service retirement benefit provided in 19-13-704 and the member's spouse's or dependent child's survivorship benefit provided in 19-13-902(1) may not be less than:\n(a) if the member has earned 20 years or more of membership service, one-half the average monthly compensation paid to all newly confirmed, full-paid firefighters, as provided each year in the budgets of those employers that participate in the retirement system and employ a full-paid firefighter; or\n(b) if the member has earned more than 5 but less than 20 years of membership service, 2.5% of the average monthly compensation paid to all newly confirmed, full-paid firefighters, as provided each year in the budgets of those employers that participate in the retirement system and employ a full-paid firefighter, for each year of the member's service.","path":["TITLE 19. PUBLIC RETIREMENT SYSTEMS","CHAPTER 13. FIREFIGHTERS' UNIFIED RETIREMENT SYSTEM","Part 10. Postretirement Benefits and Benefit Increases"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0190/chapter_0130/part_0100/section_0070/0190-0130-0100-0070.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:49:04Z","sha256":"18185e636135ec1f46517abb4ecb6d54ef60e14bb96d7bdeebf0bf9de8fdcd1f","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/19-13-1006","next":"us-mt/19-13-1008"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}