(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 33 1/3 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; 2009 L.M.C., ch. 23, § 1; 2011 L.M.C., ch. 9
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