Section 13-653. Supplemental retirement allowances

a.  City  retired
  employees.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any city retired
  employee, who unless retired for disability had at least five  years  of
  credited service at the time of his or her 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:
    1.  The  supplemental  retirement  allowance  provided herein for city
  retired employees shall be sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents per month
  plus a percentage of the retirement allowance computed without  optional
  modification,  based  on  the year of retirement, in accordance with the
  schedule hereinafter set forth, provided, however, that no  supplemental
  retirement allowance shall:
    (a) Exceed sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents per month, or
    (b)  together  with the retirement allowance received from IRT and BMT
  pension and together with any retirement allowance received from IRT and
  BMT  pension  plans,  exceed  one  hundred  eighty-three   dollars   and
  thirty-three cents per month.
    2.  The  supplemental  retirement allowance for city retired employees
  shall be computed in accordance with the following schedule:
 
          Year of retirement                       per centum
              1957 or thereafter......................None
              1956....................................two
              1955....................................three
              1954....................................three
              1953....................................four
              1952....................................five
              1951....................................seven
              1950....................................fifteen
              1949....................................fifteen
              1948....................................fifteen
              1947....................................twenty-five
              1946....................................forty-five
              1945....................................fifty-five
              1944....................................sixty
              1943....................................sixty-five
              1942....................................seventy-five
              1941....................................ninety
              1940....................................one hundred
              prior to 1940...........................one hundred
 
    b. Police or fire retired employees. Notwithstanding any other provision
  of law, any police or fire retired employee shall be entitled to a
  supplemental pension payment to be known as a supplemental retirement
  allowance payable annually, in monthly installments in an amount which,
  together with pension or retirement allowance (exclusive of extra
  service increments granted pursuant to section 13-208 or 13-307 of this
  title or any other similar provision of law), computed without optional
  modification, if any, received by such police or fire retired employee,
  shall equal but not exceed two hundred twenty-five dollars per month;
  provided, however, that the amount of such supplemental retirement
  allowance shall not exceed eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents
  per month; and further provided however, that no such supplemental
  retirement allowance shall be increased, to conform with the provisions
  of this subdivision, by more than sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents
  per month above the amount of such allowance as of December
  thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-five.

    c. Police or fire surviving spouse or dependent.  Notwithstanding  any
  other  provision of law, a police or fire surviving spouse or dependent,
  shall be entitled to a supplemental pension payment to  be  known  as  a
  supplemental   retirement   allowance   payable   annually   in   monthy
  installments  in  an amount which, together with the pension received by
  such police or fire surviving spouse or dependent shall  equal  but  not
  exceed  one hundred six dollars and sixty-six cents per month, provided,
  however that the amount of such supplemental retirement allowance  shall
  not exceed fifty-six dollars and sixty-six cents per month.
    d.   Police  or  fire  line-of-duty  surviving  spouse  or  dependent.
  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law,  a   police   or   fire
  line-of-duty  surviving spouse or dependent shall be entitled to receive
  on and after October first, nineteen hundred sixty-three a  supplemental
  pension  payment,  to  be known as a supplementary retirement allowance,
  payable annually in monthly installments in an  amount  which,  together
  with  pension  received  by  such  police or fire line-of-duty surviving
  spouse or dependent pursuant  to  section  13-209,  13-244,  13-309,  or
  13-347  of  this  title,  shall  equal  but not exceed two hundred eight
  dollars and thirty-three cents per  month,  provided  however  that  the
  amount  of  such  supplemental  retirement  allowance  shall  not exceed
  sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents per month;  and  further  provided
  however,  that  no  such  supplemental  retirement  allowance  shall  be
  increased by more than sixteen dollars and  sixty-six  cents  per  month
  pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision, as hereby amended.
    e.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law, a street cleaning
  surviving spouse or dependent shall be entitled to receive on and  after
  January  first,  nineteen  hundred  sixty-six,  a  supplemental  pension
  payment, to be known as a  supplemental  retirement  allowance,  payable
  annually  in  monthly  installments in an amount which together with the
  pension received by such street cleaning surviving spouse  or  dependent
  pursuant  to  section  13-610  of this title, shall equal but not exceed
  ninety-eight  dollars  and  thirty-three  cents  per  month,   provided,
  however, that the amount of such supplemental retirement allowance shall
  not  at  any  time exceed forty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents per
  month.
    f. The supplemental retirement allowances provided for in this article
  shall not be paid to any city retired employee or police or fire retired
  employee or any police or fire surviving spouse or dependent  or  police
  or  fire  line-of-duty  surviving  spouse  or  dependent  or  any street
  cleaning surviving spouse or dependent for any period during  which  the
  pension  or retirement allowance of such city retired employee police or
  fire retired employee, or police or fire surviving spouse or  dependent,
  or  police or fire line-of-duty surviving spouse or dependent, or street
  cleaning surviving spouse or dependent, or any part thereof is forfeited
  or suspended pursuant to laws.
    g. Any such city retired employee or police or fire  retired  employee
  already  receiving  a  supplemental  pension  under  article one of this
  subchapter shall continue to receive such supplemental pension or  shall
  receive  the  supplemental  retirement  allowance  provided  under  this
  article, whichever shall be greater.