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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="29-405" title_number="29" title_name="Benefits Other Than Service Retirement Benefits" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Cost–of–living Adjustments">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only to an allowance received by a former member, retiree, or surviving beneficiary of a deceased member, former member, or retiree:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>of the Employees’ Retirement System or the Teachers’ Retirement System who elected Selection B (Limited cost–of–living adjustment); or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>who transferred to the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System from the Employees’ Retirement System and had elected Selection B (Limited cost–of–living adjustment).</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A cost–of–living adjustment payable under this section shall be a compound cost–of–living adjustment computed in accordance with § 29–402(d)(2) of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A cost–of–living adjustment payable under this section shall be subject to a cost–of–living rate cap of 5%.</text>
  </level>
</section>
