Sec. 5. (a) A retired member is entitled to a supplemental retirement benefit to be paid by the fund as long as the member meets the following conditions:

(1) The member currently receives an annuity, a pension, or other retirement benefit from the fund.

(2) The member is at least sixty-five (65) years of age.

(3) The amount of all annuities, pensions, and retirement benefits for which the member is eligible under the federal Social Security Act is less than two hundred dollars ($200) per month.

(b) The amount of the supplemental retirement benefit to which a qualifying retired member is entitled each month is the difference between two hundred dollars ($200) and the total of all annuities, pensions, and retirement benefits that the member is eligible to receive under the federal Social Security Act.

(c) A retired member who:

(1) is not eligible for an annuity, a pension, or a retirement benefit under the federal Social Security Act; and

(2) qualifies under subsection (a);

is entitled to a supplemental retirement benefit of two hundred dollars ($200) per month.

(d) Beginning July 1, 2017, the minimum pension benefit paid to a regularly retired member receiving an unreduced pension benefit is one hundred eighty-five dollars ($185) per month regardless of amounts paid to the member from Social Security or other state sources of retirement income or assistance.

(e) The general assembly shall biennially appropriate to the fund from money not otherwise appropriated in the state general fund the amount necessary to satisfy this section.

[Pre-2006 Education Finance Recodification Citation: 21-6.1-6-5.]

As added by P.L.2-2006, SEC.28. Amended by P.L.40-2017, SEC.16.