N.Y. Retirement and Social Security Law 505 – Service retirement benefits; police/fire members, New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members and investigator rev…
§ 505. Service retirement benefits; police/fire members, New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members and investigator revised plan members. a. The normal service retirement benefit for police/fire members, New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members and investigator revised plan members at normal retirement age shall be a pension equal to fifty percent of final average salary, less fifty percent of the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two, as provided in section five hundred eleven of this article.
Terms Used In N.Y. Retirement and Social Security Law 505
- Credited service: shall mean all service which has been credited to a member pursuant to section five hundred thirteen or which was credited to such member in a public retirement system of the state before such member became subject to this article and which is allowable as previous service pursuant to section five hundred thirteen. See N.Y. Retirement and Social Security Law 501
- Investigator revised plan member: shall mean an investigator member of the New York city employees' retirement system who is a police officer as defined in paragraph (g) of subdivision thirty-four of § 1. See N.Y. Retirement and Social Security Law 501
- Member: shall mean any person included in the membership of a public retirement system of this state as provided in section five hundred of this article. See N.Y. Retirement and Social Security Law 501
- Primary social security retirement benefit: shall mean the benefit payable to a covered employee, at age sixty-two or later, under the federal social security program, exclusive of any family benefits, calculated as provided in subdivision c of section five hundred eleven. See N.Y. Retirement and Social Security Law 501
b. The early service retirement benefit for police/fire members, New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members and investigator revised plan members shall be a pension equal to two and one-tenths percent of final average salary times years of credited service at the completion of twenty years of service or upon attainment of age sixty-two, increased by one-third of one percent of final average salary for each month of service in excess of twenty years, but not in excess of fifty percent of final average salary, less fifty percent of the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two as provided in section five hundred eleven of this article, provided, however, that New York city police/fire revised plan members, New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan members and investigator revised plan members shall not be eligible to retire for service prior to the attainment of twenty years of credited service.
c. A police/fire member, a New York city uniformed correction/sanitation revised plan member or an investigator revised plan member who retires with twenty-two years of credited service or less may become eligible for annual escalation of the service retirement benefit if he elects to have the payment of his benefit commence on the date he would have completed twenty-two years and one month or more of service. In such event, the service retirement benefit shall equal two percent of final average salary for each year of credited service, less fifty percent of the primary social security retirement benefit commencing at age sixty-two as provided in section five hundred eleven of this article.