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E r 1 U 0 Pg. 3 (2) The number of years of creditable service the member would have completed at age sixty, had he or she remained in service to such age. (c) Upon retirement for disability as provided in section 20-28 {b} (c) of this Code a member shall receive an annual retirement allowance payable monthly to him or her for life during his continued total disability, commencing on the first day of the month coinciding with or next following his or her date of retirement, in an amount which, when added to one-half of the primary social security benefit to which the member may become entitled under the federal Social Security Act in effect at his or her retirement date, would equal two- thirds of his or her average final compensation, provided such allowance shall not be less than the amount he or she would have received under subsection (a) of this section had he or she retired for disability under section 20-28(a) of this Code. (d) Any allowance payable to a member under subsection (c) of this section shall be reduced by the amount of any payments made to such member as required by the Virginia Workmen's Compensation Act, and the excess of such allowance over such required payments, if any, shall be paid to such member. When the time for payment of compensa- tion under such Act shall have elapsed, the member shall thereafter receive the full amount of the allowance provided by subsection (c) of this section monthly during his or her lifetime and continued total disability. Section 20-29.1. Partial disability benefit. (a) If the commission, as a result of a medical examination or otherwise,determines that a candidate for disability retirement is not totally and permanently disabled within the meaning of section 20-28(b), but that the candidate is partially disabled to the extent that he or she is 'incapacitated from performing the usual and custom- ary duties of his or her position with the city and that his or her earnings capacity has been reduced by such partial disability, the candidate shall be awarded an annual partial disability benefit. Such benefit shall not be deemed to be 'a disability retirement allow- ance. The commission, based on the best reasonably available medical financial and other relevant evidence, shall determine the extent, expressed as a percentage, to which the candidate's earnings capacity has been reduced as a result of the partial disability which led to his or her candidacy for disability retirement. Such annual benefit shall be payable monthly to the candidate, commencing on the first day of the month coinciding with or next following his or her