(40 ILCS 5/12-143) (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 12-143)
Sec. 12-143.
Amount of ordinary disability benefit.
Any employee disabled as the result of any cause other than
injury incurred in the performance of an act of duty, while in actual service
or in salary status within a period of 30 days from date of disability,
whose absence from service without salary extends for 8 days or more, shall
be entitled to an ordinary disability benefit. No benefit
shall be payable if the total period of disability is less than 8 days.
The benefit shall begin to accrue from the first day of such absence and
shall be payable during the period of disability, subject to the following
limitations: (1) the maximum cumulative period for which the benefit is
payable during the entire period of the employee's service shall be 1/4
of the employee's total credited service (excluding periods for which ordinary
disability benefits were paid) or 5 years, whichever is the lesser; (2)
if the disability is incurred after age 65, the 5 year period may be
reduced if such reduction can be justified on the basis of actuarial cost
data approved by the board upon the recommendation of the actuary.
The amount of benefit shall be 45% of the rate of salary of the employee
at the time ordinary disability benefits commence together
with the credits specified in Section 12-155; provided that if an employee
reenters service and renders more than 30 days of actual employment in pay
status performing the duties of his regularly assigned position, and again
becomes eligible for ordinary disability benefit, the rate of salary to
be used in the computation of his latest benefit shall be the rate in effect
on the date of commencement
of the last period of absence on account of disability.
(Source: P.A. 86-272.)
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