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Current as of January 01, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
§ 6-164.2. Payments to city.
(a) For the purposes of this Section, “city annuitant” means a person receiving an age and service annuity, a widow's annuity, a child's annuity, or a minimum annuity under this Article as a direct result of previous employment by the City of Chicago (“the city”).
(b) The board shall pay to the city, on behalf of the board's city annuitants who participate in any of the city's health care plans, the following amounts:
(1) From July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2008, $85 per month for each such annuitant who is not eligible to receive Medicare benefits and $55 per month for each such annuitant who is eligible to receive Medicare benefits.
(2) Beginning July 1, 2008 and until such time as the city no longer provides a health care plan for such annuitants or December 31, 2016, whichever comes first, $95 per month for each such annuitant who is not eligible to receive Medicare benefits and $65 per month for each such annuitant who is eligible to receive Medicare benefits.
The payments described in this subsection shall be paid from the tax levy authorized under Section 6-165; such amounts shall be credited to the reserve for group hospital care and group medical and surgical plan benefits, and all payments to the city required under this subsection shall be charged against it.
(c) The city health care plans referred to in this Section and the board's payments to the city under this Section are not and shall not be construed to be pension or retirement benefits for the purposes of Section 5 of Article XIII of the Illinois Constitution of 1970.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Illinois Statutes Chapter 40. Pensions § 5/6-164.2. Payments to city - last updated January 01, 2022 | https://codes.findlaw.com/il/chapter-40-pensions/il-st-sect-40-5-6-164-2/
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