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of her or his support from tko member. Such retirement allowance shall be payable during the lifetime of such first listed person and shall be equal to the reduced retirement allowance that would have been payable from time to time had the member retired on the date of his death after having elected to have his allowance pay- able under the joint and last survivor option described in sub- section (a) (1) of section 26-86 so that the same amount would be continued after hi~ death to such first listed person~ In any case in which the member is survived by a widowr the retiremen~ allowance payable hereunder shall in no event be less than the altowance~-if any~ that would bare been payable under the pro- visions of subsection (b) above if the member had not satisfied the age or service requirements of this subsection. Section 26-85. Death benefits after retirement or disability. (a) Should a member who retired prior to July i~ 1967, die at any time after retirement but before receiving total retire- ment allowances provided for in this chapter at least equal to his accumulated contributions as of his date of retirement, the differ- ence between such accumulated contributions and such total allow- ances shall then be payable in a lump sum in accordance with section 26-87 unless the reti~emcnt altowanc~ is then beL~g paid in accord- ance with any of the options contained in section 26-86, as in effect at his date of retirement. (b) Should a member who had at least one year of credit- able service die after termination of service and before his normal retir~en~ date, after having been continuously disabled from date of termination of service to date of death to such an extent that he would ~ave ~uatified for disability retirement in accordance with section 2~-78 or section 26-80~ without regard to any credit- able service requirements or actual retirement thereunder~ pro- vided tha~ written notification of such disability is given to the board by the member~ his employer or his beneficiary desig- nated as provided in section 26-87 within one year after the member's ~ermination of service, an additional benefit equal to one thousand dollars shall be payable in a lump s~ in accordance with section 26-87. Section 2~-86. Optional benefits° (a) Each member who retires under any of the provisions of this article shall have the right at any time, not subsequent to the later of the effective date of the member's retirement or the date of the written notification to the board of the retirement of the member, to elect to have his retirement allowance payable under any one of the options set forth in this section in lieu of the re-