Court Rules Police Officer’s Widow Must Wait Until Her Late Husband’s Sixtieth Birthday to Collect a Survivor’s Pension
by Carolyn Welch Clifford In a case of first impression, an Illinois Appellate Court recently determined that the surviving spouse of a former police officer who had separated from service but had remained a deferred pensioner at the time of his death was not entitled to draw surviving spouse benefits until the former police officer’s sixtieth birthday. In Thornley v. …