Connecticut § 5-192t - Survivorship benefits.

§ 5-192t. Survivorship benefits.

Sec. 5-192t. Survivorship benefits. (a) No member of the tier II plan, other than any member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, shall be entitled to benefits under section 5-144 or sections 5-146 to 5-151, inclusive. Survivorship benefits shall be paid only as provided in section 5-192r and in this section.

(b) If any member of tier II other than a state police officer sustains an injury while acting within the scope of his employment, which injury is not the result of his own wilful or wanton act, and dies as a result of such injury, and a spouse and a dependent child or children under eighteen years of age survive him, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be paid in equal monthly installments over a period of not less than ten years to such employee's spouse, provided any such payments shall terminate on the death or remarriage of such spouse within said ten-year period, and fifty dollars a month shall be paid for each dependent child under eighteen years of age, payable to such spouse or the guardian of such child or children until such child or children reach eighteen years of age. If such employee leaves a spouse and no child or children under eighteen years of age, the sum of fifty thousand dollars shall be paid in equal monthly installments over a period of not less than ten years, to such spouse, provided any such payments shall terminate on the death or remarriage of such spouse within such ten-year period. If such employee leaves no spouse and no child or children under eighteen years of age but leaves a parent or parents dependent upon him, the sum of fifty thousand dollars shall be paid to such employee's parent or parents in equal monthly installments over a period of not less than ten years, provided, on the death of one such parent, the surviving parent shall continue to receive the entire monthly payments under the provisions of this section and provided such payments shall cease on the death of both such parents during such ten-year period.

(P.A. 83-533, S. 36, 54; P.A. 85-510, S. 9, 35; P.A. 98-263, S. 11, 21; P.A. 11-51, S. 134.)

History: P.A. 85-510 amended Subsec. (a) to except members of the division of state police from the provision that no member of tier II shall be entitled to benefits under Sec. 5-144 or Secs. 5-146 to 5-151, inclusive, and to delete phrase “nor shall any such member be required to contribute as provided in section 5-148” (repealed by P.A. 85-510); P.A. 98-263 amended Subsec. (b) to increase benefits payable to surviving spouse, dependent children and dependent parents over ten-year rather than five-year period, effective July 1, 1998, and applicable to any death occurring on or after January 1, 1998; pursuant to P.A. 11-51, “Department of Public Safety” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection” in Subsec. (a), effective July 1, 2011.