When the Empire Center posted a list on its website of the 665 public employees “double dipping” — or collecting public sector pensions while getting paid for other public sector jobs — Herkimer County’s Dr. Vinay Patil emerged as one of the highest-paid at $210,000 annually. Read More
The Empire Center for Public Policy is seeking to intervene in a lawsuit initiated by New York City firefighter unions in an attempt to block the release of pension recipients’ names alongside individual pension benefit amounts. Read More
A total of 665 state and local government workers have permission to collect both a full-time salary and retirement payments, according to a new report. Read More
The Empire Center reported Monday that 665 retired public workers in New York had authorization this year to "double dip" and keep collecting pensions while getting paid for jobs after returning to work in the public sector. Read More
Empire Center President E.J. McMahon spoke with Capital Tonight host Liz Benjamin about Governor Cuomo's veto of a pension sweetener bill. Read More
A total of 665 state and local government workers — including 28 from the Lower Hudson Valley — have permission to collect both a full-time salary and retirement payments, according to a new report. Read More
Retirement hasn’t stopped 665 public employees from drawing government paychecks in addition to their pensions, a new report found. The double-dipping retirees all received a waiver that allowed them to take another government job while still receiving their pensions, according to the report from The Empire Center, a fiscally conservative think tank. Read More
More than 650 retired state and local government workers collecting a pension have also been authorized to earn a public salary before they're 65, according to a report by the Empire Center for Public Policy. Ten Nassau County employees and eight Suffolk County employees, mostly investigators in the district attorneys' offices, have received waivers from the state to go back to work, or "double dip," according to the database compiled by the nonprofit advocacy group. About three dozen other waivers to the state retirement law were granted for Long Island police departments, towns, and school districts. Read More