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have taken place since the member's death or retirement~ which- ever first occurred. Such additional allowance shall be determined as ~ percentage of the retirement allowance that would have been payable iD the absence of this section and shall'be subject to the same conditions of payment as are applicable to such retirement allowancer with such percentage being computed as the percentage increase in said Consumer Price Index from its monthly average for the calendar year in which~the member's death or resirement occurred to its monthly average for the calendar year immediately prior to the calendar year as of which the amount of the additional allow- ance is being determined. Any additional allowance provided under this section shall be determined on a fiscal year basis only, as of each July !~ and no such additional allowance shall be paid to any person prior to the July t next following the expiration of a period of twelve months after the end of the calendar year in which took place the member's death or retirement, whichever first occurred. In no case skal! the opcration of this section result in a reduction in the amount of any person's total benefit belcw the amount of the retirement allowance that would have been payable in the absence of this section. Section 26-~3. Ordinary death benefits. Should a me~er die in se~ice from a cause that is ~etermined not compensable under the Virginia Workmen's Compensation Act, death benefits shall be payable as follows: (a) If the member at date of death has more than one year of creditable service, there shall be paid in a l~p s~u/~, in addition to any other benefit provided for in this artic!e~ an additional benefit equal to one thousand dollars i-n accordance with-section 26-87. (b) If the member at date of death has more than five years of creditable service but has neither attained his fifty-fifth birth- day nor completed twenty-five years of creditable service and is survived by a ~idow, there shall be paid to such widow during her widowhood an annual allowance, payable monthly, equal to one thousand two hundred dollars a year, such allowance to be in addition to any benefits provided for in subsection (a) above. (c) if the member at date of death has either attained his fifty-fifth birthda~ or completed twenty-five years of credit- able service, there shall be paid a retirement allowanc~ to the first of the following listed persons, if any~ wh~ is alive at the death of the member: Wife, husband~ mother~ fath~r~ sister or brother~ provided such sister or brother received more than fifty percent