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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 33 FILED ON: 1/2/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 33
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)
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An Act relative to the definition of wages for retirement calculations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION 1. Section 1 of Chapter 32 is hereby amended by adding at the end of the
2definition of “wages” the following paragraph:
3 Notwithstanding the foregoing, wages shall also include payments made by an employer
4to an employee in supplementation of weekly incapacity payments under the provisions of
5sections sixty-nine to seventy-five inclusive of chapter one hundred fifty-two, or of sections
6thirty-four, thirty-four A, thirty-four B, thirty-five A, thirty-five F, thirty-six, until a retirement
7allowance becomes effective for him under the provisions of sections one to twenty-eight
8inclusive of this chapter. The extent to which these supplemental payments are considered wages
9shall be limited, when combined with such incapacity payments, to the amount that in the
10determination of the retirement board the member would have received during the applicable
11time period, had they not been so incapacitated.