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12. and retired on the first day of the month coinciding with or next following the date on • which his death occurs and had he elected to have his allowance paid under the full joint and last survivor option provided for in section 2-219.13(b) of this code, with his widow designated as contingent beneficiary, assuming in the case of a member who had not become eligible for early service retirement at his date of death that the requirements of section 2-219.4(c) of this code were such that he would have been eligible for early service retirement and that the retirement allowance payable in such event would be reduced by one-half of one percent for each complete month in the period between the member's date of death and a date five years prior to his normal retirement date. SECTION 2-219.15. Post retirement supplements. (a) In addition to the monthly allowances payable under sections 2-219.5, 2-219.11, 2-219.13 and 2-219.14 of this code, post-retirement supplements shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of this section to the recipients of such allow- ances. Such supplements shall be subject to the same conditions of payment as are such allowances. (b) The amounts of the post-retirement supplements provided for hereunder shall be determined as percentages of the allowances supplemented hereby. The city council shall equate such percentage supplement for any fiscal year, as nearly as may be practicable to the average percentage increase applied to the pay plan for current city • employees, exclusive of merit increase, for the same fiscal year. (c) Amounts of post-retirement supplements shall be determined initially as of July 1, 1976, and subsequently as of any July 1 as of which the city council shall have determined a further adjustment to be needed, provided an amount sufficient to pay the cost of any necessary increase in the amount of/the post-retirement supplements being paid shall have been appropriated. No change in the amount of any post-retirement supplement shall be effected between determination dates except as necessary to reflect changes in the amount of the allowance being supplemented, to the end that any post-retirement supple- ment shall remain a constant percentage of the respective allowance being supplemented, nor shall any new post-retirement supplement be commenced except as of a determination date. The post-retirement supplement determined as of any determination date shall become effective as of the payment date next following such determination date and shall be in lieu of any post-retirement supplement previously payable, which shall thereupon be terminated. (d) The city council shall make an annual review of the post-retirement supplements being paid in accordance with this section and shall determine whether or not the following July 1 shall be a determination date as of which the amounts of such supplements shall be recomputed.