Frank Smith Says NB: State Pensions, Part 2: Recent Retirees Raking In More -- Courant.com

Sunday, December 25, 2011

State Pensions, Part 2: Recent Retirees Raking In More -- Courant.com

BY: JON LENDER

5 comments:

Anonymous said...: The Hartford Courant examined records for all 1,072 state workers who retired in 2011 in months August, September and October — one of the biggest wave of retirements in recent years — and they show: -The median annual pension among those new recent retirees is $34,920, which is 28 percent higher than the $27,163 median pension figure given in August by the Office of the State Comptroller for nearly 42,000 existing pensioners.; December 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM
Anonymous said...: just jealousy for those who don't get such pensions.; December 25, 2011 at 10:00 PM
Anonymous said...: I retired at 40 with a STARTING PENSION OF $62,000 as a DOC Officer. My salary my last year was less than $52,000. Since then I have received 10 - 3% COLA raises. I was working after my retirement, but was laid off. So for 99 weeks I collect OVER $100,000 a year when you combine unemployment benefits and my state pension. When unemployment runs out, I still collect over $80,000 a year. I go to my doctor every chance I get since you, Connecticut tax payers, are paying for it. I just had $1400 of dental work done that cost me $225.00. I bought a foreclosure in Florida for next to nothing just to evade The Connecticut Income Tax. My vehicles are registered in Florida also.
Not bad for twenty years "work" that was done mostly on third shift (sleeping), then working days on court trips. At one point I owned a lawn care service. I would pay other officers $100 cash to work my normal shifts so I could make $300-$400 a day for 9 months a year. This practice went on for years until a nasty divorce of an officer alerted the IRS of THAT tax dodge. Working for the DOC was..is..a licence to steal.; December 25, 2011 at 10:17 PM
Anonymous said...: There is always the hazardous duty risk of choking on a donut!; December 26, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Anonymous said...: Then there is always double-tripple-quadruple dippers like DeFronzo who earned retirment credits for years and years that he never had to go to work at his state job because of all the years he was on leave from the state to be mayor and then the other years he was union president getting paid by the state (taxpayers) while he was working at the union full time. It is good work if you can get it!; December 26, 2011 at 2:47 PM

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