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Charter Amendment LA-C Disabled Children Survivor Benefit of the Fire and Police Pension Plan City of Los Angeles Charter Amendment - Majority Approval Required Pass: 168,786 / 67.0% Yes votes ...... 83,134 / 33.0% No votes
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Shall the Charter be amended to allow disabled children of deceased members of the Fire and Police Pension Plan to marry or be adopted without losing their Dependent Child benefits and to provide additional options for the payment of benefits belonging to disabled children of deceased members that do not increase the amount of the benefits being paid?
THE PROPOSAL: This measure would allow a Dependent Child to continue to receive the survivor benefit if the Dependent Child either marries or becomes adopted. The measure would also provide additional options for payment of the benefit, which could be paid directly to the Dependent Child, or to a “Special Needs Trust” which has been established for the benefit of the Dependent Child, as well as to a guardian or conservator of the Dependent Child. FINANCIAL IMPACT: Minimal costs to the Fire and Police Pension Plan, since only a limited number of individuals who qualify as Dependent Children would continue to receive retirement benefits. SUPPORTERS SAY: It’s unfair to individuals with disabilities who lose a parent to also lose their benefits if they are able to marry or be adopted into a new family. They are still disabled whether or not they are married or adopted. This is the only remaining group of pension plan beneficiaries who are penalized if they marry or are adopted. (No official opposing argument was submitted.)
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