If, thereafter, it shall be proved that the said person was alive at any time when any sums were paid by way of pension to dependent or dependents of any person so presumed to be dead, pursuant to this act, the said board of trustees shall include the amount of such payment or payments made during the time when such person was alive, in its itemized statement of budget request or requests for appropriations for the next succeeding fiscal year and the Legislature shall make an additional appropriation sufficient to repay such amount or amounts to said retirement system or fund and the sums so appropriated shall be applied and used accordingly.
N.J.S. § 43:3A-3