§ 192. Supplemental retirement allowances of retired employees.
Notwithstanding any other provision of the retirement and social
security law, any state retired employee or state retired teacher, as
defined by section one hundred ninety-one of this article, who, unless
retired for disability, had at least five years of credited service at
the time of his retirement, shall be entitled to a supplemental pension
payment to be known as a supplemental retirement allowance payable
annually in monthly installments in accordance with the following
provisions of this section:

a. The supplemental retirement allowance provided for herein shall be
a percentage of the retirement allowance, computed without optional
modification, based on the year of his retirement, in accordance with
the schedule hereinafter set forth, provided, however, that no
supplemental retirement allowance shall:

(1) Exceed one thousand five hundred dollars per year, nor

(2) Together with the retirement allowance computed without optional
modification, and the primary benefit obtained under the federal old-age
survivors, and disability insurance system, exceed four thousand dollars
a year, nor

(3) In the case of any person under the age of sixty-two retired for
disability, together with the retirement allowance computed without
optional modification, the primary benefit obtained under the federal
old-age, survivors, and disability insurance system, and any earnings as
the result of his own employment including self employment, exceed four
thousand dollars a year, nor

(4) In the case of state retired employees, be paid for that portion
of the annuity based on additional contributions made pursuant to
section twenty-one (i) of the retirement and social security law, or
section fifty-eight of the civil service law since repealed, nor, in the
case of state retired teachers, that portion of the annuity based on
additional contributions made pursuant to subdivision three of section
five hundred sixteen of the education law, nor

(5) Be paid to any state retired employee or state retired teacher for
any period during which he returns to service with the state or a
political subdivision thereof other than service in employment
authorized by section two hundred eleven, section two hundred twelve or
section two hundred fourteen of this chapter.

b. The supplemental retirement allowance shall be computed in
accordance with the following schedule:
YEAR OF RETIREMENT PER CENTUM
1961 or thereafter none
1960 three
1959 five
1958 six
1957 nine
1956 thirteen
1955 fifteen
1954 fifteen
1953 fifteen
1952 sixteen
1951 eighteen
1950 twenty-eight
1949 twenty-eight
1948 twenty-eight
1947 thirty-eight
1946 fifty-eight
1945 seventy-two
1944 seventy-six
1943 seventy-nine
1942 ninety
1941 one-hundred-eleven
1940 one-hundred-twenty-two
Prior to 1940 one-hundred-twenty-two

c. Any such retired employee already receiving a supplemental pension
under other provisions of the retirement and social security law shall
continue to receive such supplemental pension or shall receive the
supplemental retirement allowance provided under this section, whichever
shall be greater.