Memorandum  #24: Cost of Living Increase for Supplemental Dependent Allowance Paid to Accidental Disability Retirees and Accidental Death Survivors

Date:	07/21/2017
Referenced Sources:	PERAC Website

PERAC Memo #24, 2017

To All Retirement Boards:

TO: All Retirement Boards

FROM: Joseph E. Connarton, Executive Director

RE: Cost of Living Increase for Supplemental Dependent Allowance Paid to Accidental Disability Retirees and Accidental Death Survivors

DATE: July 21, 2017

Any retirement system which has accepted the supplemental dependent allowance provided for in G.L. c.32, § 7(2)(a)(iii), or which has accepted the provisions of G.L. c. 32, § 22D (under which the supplemental dependent allowance is also deemed to have been accepted), shall pay an annual amount of $897.72 beginning July 1, 2017 for each eligible child as defined in G.L. c. 32, § 7(2)(a)(iii).

Also, any retirement system which has accepted the additional pension for dependent children provided for in G.L. c. 32, § 9(2)(d)(ii), shall pay an annual amount of $897.72 beginning July 1, 2017 for each eligible child as defined in G.L. c. 32, § 9(2)(d).

Please contact PERAC's actuary, Jim Lamenzo, if you have any questions on this issue.

Commission Members

Philip Y Brown, Esq., Chairman
Auditor Suzanne M. Bump
Kathleen M. Fallon
Kate Fitzpatrick
James M. Machado
Robert B. McCarthy
Jennifer F. Sullivan