Tag Archives: pension

Buffalo firefighters are in the news over an alleged overtime scam. Mayor Byron Brown claims the scam involves a longstanding practice of buying and selling overtime shifts, coupled with healthy firefighters calling in sick to create additional overtime openings. The buying and ...

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Today’s burning question: If you were hired as a fire chief by a city who promised you eligibility for a state managed pension, and it turned out the state pension board ruled your were ineligible, what would you do? An Arizona ...

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  Five retired Portland, Oregon police officers and firefighters have filed a class action lawsuit against the Portland Fire and Police Disability and Retirement Board seeking to block a plan to recoup roughly $3 million in claimed overpayments to retirees ...

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Baltimore City’s fire and police unions have filed suit in Federal court against the city of Baltimore alleging that chronic underfunding of the pension system has created a financial nightmare for the pension system, breached their collective bargaining agreements, and ...

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