2015 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 3 - PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
Chapter 12 - South Dakota Retirement System
§ 3-12-215 Surviving spouse benefit at age sixty-five where member received disability benefits.
3-12-215. Surviving spouse benefit at age sixty-five where member received disability benefits.
If no family benefit is being paid pursuant to § 3-12-214, a surviving spouse of a member who received disability benefits pursuant to § 3-12-207 shall, upon attaining the age of sixty-five, receive a monthly benefit, payable for the life of the surviving spouse, equal to one of the following calculations, whichever is applicable:
(1) If there was a family benefit paid, sixty percent of the family benefit paid at the time the family benefit ended, increased by the improvement factor from the date the last family benefit was paid; or
(2) If there was no family benefit paid, sixty percent of the deceased member's disability benefit paid at the time of the member's death, increased by the improvement factor from the date of the member's death.
Source: SL 2014, ch 20, § 15.
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