Increased Retirement Allowances

Narin, Deputy Attorney General,

You have requested an opinion from this department as to whether the Public School Employes’ Retirement Board may continue to pay the increased *400retirement allowances provided for in the Act of May 23, 1949, P. L. 1804 (hereinafter referred to as the First Amendatory Act), which amended subsection 4 of section 14 of the Act of July 18, 1917, P. L. 1043, as amended, commonly known as the School Employes’ Retirement Law.

The First Amendatory Act increased the minimum monthly payment to former teachers, principals, supervising principals and superintendents who were…