Common use of Disability Pension Benefits Clause in Contracts

Disability Pension Benefits. Participants in the Defined Benefit Plan who incur a total and permanent disability while on duty for the employer will be eligible for a disability pension benefit. This disability pension benefit pays accrued regular pension benefits, offset by workers’ compensation payments and Social Security Disability payments. At normal retirement age, as defined in the retirement plan, the participant shall be credited additional service credits not to exceed 15 additional years. Participants in the Defined Benefit Plan who incur a non-duty related total and permanent disability shall be covered by the City’s long-term disability insurance plan. Total and permanent disability shall mean such disability as renders the employee wholly and permanently incapable of performing work for the Employer in its Fire Department. Disqualification. No participant shall be deemed to be totally and permanently disabled if their incapacity consists of chronic alcoholism or addiction to narcotics, or, if such incapacity was contracted, suffered or incurred while they were engaged in a felonious criminal enterprise, or resulted from an intentionally self-inflicted injury. A participant shall not be retired for disability who does not return to the employment with the Employer after incurring a disability while on a leave of absence because of military or similar service and a governmental pension is payable.

Disability Pension Benefits. Participants in the Defined Benefit Plan who incur a total and permanent disability while on duty for the employer will be eligible for a disability pension benefit. This disability pension benefit pays accrued regular pension benefits, offset by workers’ compensation payments and Social Security Disability payments. At normal retirement age, as defined in the retirement plan, the participant shall be credited additional service credits not to exceed 15 additional years. Participants in the Defined Benefit Plan who incur a non-duty related total and permanent disability shall be covered by the City’s long-term disability insurance plan. Total and permanent disability shall mean such disability as renders the employee wholly and permanently incapable of performing work for the Employer in its Fire Police Department. Disqualification. No participant shall be deemed to be totally and permanently disabled if their incapacity consists of chronic alcoholism or addiction to narcotics, or, if such incapacity was contracted, suffered or incurred while they were engaged in a felonious criminal enterprise, or resulted from an intentionally self-inflicted injury. A participant shall not be retired for disability who does not return to the employment with the Employer after incurring a disability while on a leave of absence because of military or similar service and a governmental pension is payable.