Arkansas Code
Subchapter 8 - Firemen's Relief and Pension Funds
§ 24-11-829. Increase in surviving spouse benefits

(a) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter, the board of trustees of any municipal firemen's relief and pension fund for which a full one-mill tax is levied and which received in excess of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) from premium tax funds during the most recent year shall increase surviving spouse benefits payable from the firemen's relief and pension fund to the amount of the pension received by the retired firefighter at the time of his or her death, or the amount of the pension to which the member would have been entitled on the day he or she died had he or she been retired.
(b) The board shall direct a monthly pension in the increased amount effective on or before August 1, 1993.

Structure Arkansas Code

Arkansas Code

Title 24 - Retirement And Pensions

Chapter 11 - Local Police And Fire Pension And Relief Funds

Subchapter 8 - Firemen's Relief and Pension Funds

§ 24-11-801. Board of trustees — Members

§ 24-11-802. Board of trustees — Proceedings

§ 24-11-803. Board of trustees — Powers

§ 24-11-804. Administration of small funds by Arkansas Local Police and Fire Retirement System

§ 24-11-805. Investment

§ 24-11-806. Payments generally

§ 24-11-807. Minimum payments generally — Proration upon insufficiency of fund — Supplemental pensions

§ 24-11-809. Apportionment of insurance premium tax generally

§ 24-11-811. Appropriations of insurance premium tax — Planned community property owners' associations

§ 24-11-812. Tax levy by city council

§ 24-11-813. Clerk's report to pension review board

§ 24-11-814. Subjection of fund to legal process

§ 24-11-815. Appeals

§ 24-11-816. Membership — Contributions

§ 24-11-817. Military service

§ 24-11-818. Benefits — Voluntary retirement

§ 24-11-819. Benefits — Disability retirement

§ 24-11-820. Benefits — Death of active or retired member other than while employed outside department

§ 24-11-822. Benefits — Payments upon death of retirant or beneficiary

§ 24-11-823. Increase in benefits for certain persons retired due to total permanent disability

§ 24-11-824. Fire protection districts

§ 24-11-825. Pensions for volunteer firefighters

§ 24-11-826. Additional benefits for certain firefighters hired prior to January 1, 1983 — Definition

§ 24-11-827. Retired member returning to active status

§ 24-11-829. Increase in surviving spouse benefits

§ 24-11-830. Deferred retirement option plan

§ 24-11-832. Applicability of § 24-11-820

§ 24-11-833. Fire-related service

§ 24-11-834. Former military service credit purchase