(b) This subsection applies to survivors of employee beneficiaries who:

1. (1) died before January 1, 1990; and

2. (2) were covered by a benefit plan established under this section.

   The maximum monthly pension payable to dependent parents or surviving spouses may not exceed two hundred dollars ($200) per month during the parent's or the spouse's lifetime if the spouse did not remarry before September 1, 1984. If the surviving spouse remarried before September 1, 1984, benefits ceased on the date of remarriage. The maximum monthly pension payable to dependent children is thirty dollars ($30) per child and ceases with the last payment before attaining eighteen (18) years of age.

(c) This subsection applies to survivors of employee beneficiaries who:

1. (1) died after December 31, 1989; and

2. (2) were covered by a benefit plan established under this section.

   The monthly pension payable to dependent parents or surviving spouses must be not less than two hundred dollars ($200) for each month during the parent's or the spouse's lifetime. The monthly pension payable to each dependent child must be not less than thirty dollars ($30) for each child and ceases with the last payment before attaining eighteen (18) years of age.

(f) In addition to, or instead of, a modification of a surviving spouse's monthly pension under this section, a county fiscal body may approve a cost of living payment to a surviving spouse under section 23 of this chapter.

[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citation: 17-3-14-14.]

As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.61. Amended by P.L.203-1984, SEC.2; P.L.313-1989, SEC.7; P.L.314-1989, SEC.2; P.L.97-2005, SEC.2; P.L.42-2008, SEC.1.