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
Tag: Public Pensions
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
On the ever-growing list of what’s wrong with New York state are waivers that allow some retired public workers to collect generous pensions and return to work in the public sector for lucrative paychecks far beyond what’s generally allowed by law. Read More
These lucky public servants have a pay deal that’s twice as nice. They’re in a select group of 665 city and state employees under age 65 who draws hefty government salaries at the same time they rake in public pension cash, says a watchdog group that wants more scrutiny of double-dipping. Read More
The earnings limit for younger retirees collecting both pensions and pay from government can be waived “temporarily” in certain circumstances. Read More
Retired New York state and local government employees under the age of 65 cannot collect full public pension benefits if they earn more than $30,000 by returning to work for a state or local agency – but the earnings limit for younger retirees collecting both pensions and pay from government can be waived “temporarily” in certain circumstances. Read More
The Corrections Department and other state agencies need to keep in mind the short- and long-term burden to taxpayers as they operate, said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the Albany-based Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative government watchdog group. "Every decision you make that has to do with a public employee goes back to a taxpayer," said Hoefer. Read More