(a) Service-connected disability. The annual amount of service-connected disability payments payable for total incapacity equals 70% of the employee's final earnings, less any reductions provided in section 33-134. The annual amount of service-connected disability payments payable for partial incapacity equals 52½% of the employee’s final earnings.
(b) Non-service-connected disability. The annual amount of the non-service-connected disability benefit payment equals 2 percent of the employee's final earnings, multiplied by the number of years of credited service earned under Section 33-41 or Section 33-119. However the benefit must be at least 30 percent of the employee's final earnings, but no more than 60 percent of the employee's final earnings, less any reductions provided in Section 33-134.
(c) Cost-of-living adjustments. The administrator must make a cost-of-living adjustment annually to the disability benefits paid to any public safety employee under this plan. The cost of living adjustment must be equal to 60% of the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the Washington-Arlington- Alexandria Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA), as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, the disability cost-of-living increase must not increase the disability benefits by more than 3% each 12-month period. A non-public safety employee must not receive a cost-of-living adjustment for any benefit paid under this plan. The cost-of-living adjustment for a disability benefit based upon a disability occurring after June 30, 2011 must not exceed 2.5 percent. (1994 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 2; , § 1; , § 1; , § 1; , §1.)
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