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<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="29-408" 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 based on creditable service earned on or after July 1, 2011, for a former member, retiree, or surviving beneficiary of a deceased member, former member, or retiree of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the Correctional Officers’ Retirement System;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the Employees’ Pension System;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the Law Enforcement Officers’ Pension System;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the State Police Retirement System; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the Teachers’ Pension System.</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:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <level label="2">
        <text>5% if, for the calendar year ending December 31 in the preceding fiscal year, the total investment performance of the several systems equals or exceeds the assumed rate of investment return established by the Board of Trustees in accordance with § 21–125(c) of this article and in effect as of December 31 of the preceding fiscal year; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>1% if, for the calendar year ending December 31 in the preceding fiscal year, the total investment performance of the several systems does not equal or exceed the assumed rate of investment return established by the Board of Trustees in accordance with § 21–125(c) of this article and in effect as of December 31 of the preceding fiscal year.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
