§88-90 Post retirement allowances. (a) There shall be payable to each person receiving any pension, annuity or retirement allowance, a post retirement allowance which shall consist of an amount equivalent to one and one-half per cent of the monthly pension, annuity, or retirement allowance as originally computed, approved, and paid. This benefit shall be added to the monthly pension, annuity, or retirement allowance on the first day of July in each year following June 30, 1961, as follows:
(b) After June 30, 1970, the post retirement allowance shall consist of an amount equivalent to two and one-half per cent of the monthly pension, annuity, or retirement allowance as originally computed and paid. This benefit shall be payable on the first day of July in each year following June 30, 1970, as follows:
(c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), for employees who become members after June 30, 2012, and for any person who receives a monthly pension, annuity or retirement allowance as a beneficiary or survivor of the employee, the post retirement allowance shall consist of an amount equivalent to one and one-half per cent of the monthly pension, annuity, or retirement allowance as originally computed and paid. Payment of the benefit shall commence on the first day of July following the calendar year in which the payment of the pension, annuity or retirement allowance is effective. [L 1961, c 175, §7; am L 1963, c 127, §10; Supp, §6-49.5; HRS §88-81; am L 1969, c 110, pt of §1; am L 1970, c 113, §1; am L 2011, c 163, §9]