Beginning on January 1, 1991, as an additional supplement to other retirement allowances provided, any annuitant who is receiving a retirement annuity on the effective date of this section shall receive a supplemental benefit, prospectively, if the effective date of retirement for such annuitant was prior to January 1, 1981. Each such annuitant shall receive as his or her supplemental benefit an increased annual amount which is the product of the sum of $6 multiplied by his or her years of credited service. Nothing in this or any other section of this code shall be construed to require any appropriation of state General Revenue Funds for the payment of any benefit provided for in this section.

Terms Used In West Virginia Code 5-10-22d

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Credited service: means the sum of a member's prior service credit, military service credit, workers' compensation service credit, and contributing service credit standing to his or her credit as provided in this article. See West Virginia Code 5-10-2
  • Retirement: means a member's withdrawal from the employ of a participating public employer and the commencement of an annuity by the retirement system. See West Virginia Code 5-10-2
  • State: means the State of West Virginia. See West Virginia Code 5-10-2