PBGC continues to calculate the final benefit amount that participants will receive from their Circuit
City pension plan.
Not exact matches
After warning the
City of Stockton that its pension obligations did not enjoy a privileged position in federal bankruptcy court, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein proceeded to confirm the city's plan of adjustm
City of Stockton that its
pension obligations did not enjoy a privileged position in federal bankruptcy court, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Klein proceeded to confirm the
city's plan of adjustm
city's
plan of adjustment.
And companies can't take on more debt, nor can states and
cities because they're being badly squeezed by falling tax revenues and rising
pension plan shortfalls.
Canada
Pension Plan Investment Board recently committed to a $ 234 - million joint venture to build a residential, office, retail and hotel space in the
city of Suzhou, China, for example.
Ivanhoé, the real estate investment arm of
pension plan manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, has been most successful in buying properties in New York, and now has more than 5.5 million - square - feet of the
city's real estate in its portfolio, says Adam Adamakakis, executive vice president of US Investments at Ivanhoé.
The
city of 300,000
plans to cut payments to bondholders while leaving intact
pension obligations to public workers and retirees.
If they
planned to get anything out of
City, then they all - Kean and Venky's - need to be relieved of their duties on medical grounds, then
pensioned off to a large walled compound to tend plants and live happily in institutionalised calm.
Cuomo defended the newly approved Tier Six retirement
plan, saying it would prevent layoffs at the local level, given the strain
pensions have put on counties,
cities and other local municipalities.
When a watered - down Tier 5 was finally enacted later that year, it didn't cover New York
City cops and firefighters hired after the Tier 2 expiration date — because then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg reckoned the city would save more by assigning them to another, older pension plan known as Tie
City cops and firefighters hired after the Tier 2 expiration date — because then - Mayor Michael Bloomberg reckoned the
city would save more by assigning them to another, older pension plan known as Tie
city would save more by assigning them to another, older
pension plan known as Tier 3.
In addition, the
city's
pension contribution is slated to exceed $ 8.2 billion and health benefits are on track to surpass $ 9.1 billion in Fiscal Year 2015, which takes effect July 1, 2014, according to the
city's most recent fiscal
plan.
Topics included Peter Ragone's role in the administration, de Blasio's engagement in the
city council speaker race,
plans concerning his wife's possible staff and office, Health Commissioner Tom Farley, Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina's
pension and salary and Governor Cuomo's
plans to allow medical marijuana in New York.
Miner opposed the governor's
plan to bail out financially struggling
cities by permitting them to borrow against their own public
pension systems.
Wolfson did not comment directly on de Blasio, who is at odds with Cuomo over the issue and is favoring a more fiscally conservative
pension plan, but his comments put him on the side of
City Hall in its dispute with the state.
Syracuse, NY - Mayor Stephanie Miner made her boldest statement yet against the popular Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo when she said his
plan to help
cities with
pension costs was an accounting gimmick and that the state lacks leadership.
My
city's
pension costs have increased significantly in the past decade, so you might expect me to support the 401 (k)- style retirement
plan now under consideration in New York.
Those issues ranged from a
plan to cut taxes for the struggling Vernon Downs harness track in central New York to the proposal to put more speed cameras around New York
City schools and legislation related to those who qualify for enhanced accidental disability
pension benefits in New York
City.
«The
city does have a
plan to slowly, over 22 years, catch up the funding in its
pension obligations.
Committee backers, including the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and the Partnership for New York
City, benefit from a range of policies continued, implemented, or proposed by the Cuomo administration, including low corporate tax rates, subsidies,
pension reform, and real estate development
plans.
· Creating a
pension reform
plan that will save state taxpayers and local governments outside New York
City $ 83 billion, and will save New York
City $ 30 billion over the next 30 years; and
Astorino, who lobbied Albany on the initial
pension plan plan with New York
City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, knocked the compromise in Syracuse for being «watered - down.»
New York
City's biggest public employee
pension fund is poised to vote today to begin pulling its investments from hedge funds, the latest move by a large
pension plan to scrap an investment path that once promised big returns.
The AFL - CIO announced
plans to invest $ 1 billion in union and
city worker
pension funds in affordable developments amid de Blasio's affordable housing push.
It's a bit of a stretch to compare Cuomo's borrow now, pay later
pension plan to then - President Ford's 1975 denial of federal funds to nearly bankrupt New York
City.
The Cuomo - backed
plan would grant New York
City's entire uniformed work force with the same line - of - duty retirement benefits, versus de Blasio's more modest proposal to increase
pensions for more recent hires, while still keeping them lower than those received by their more senior colleagues.
City taxpayers pumped $ 23.7 billion into the city's five pension plans over the past five years - including $ 6.3 billion in 2009, the most recent year availa
City taxpayers pumped $ 23.7 billion into the
city's five pension plans over the past five years - including $ 6.3 billion in 2009, the most recent year availa
city's five
pension plans over the past five years - including $ 6.3 billion in 2009, the most recent year available.
He supported a Cuomo - backed bill to improve disability
pensions for uniformed workers over a more modest version the mayor sought and wrote to the
city ripping a
plan to place homeless people at a Queens hotel located near the Nassau County border with zero public outreach, Thies said.
Judith Bergtraum, 68, who joined CUNY in 2007 and is vice chancellor for facilities
planning, construction and management, gets a $ 153,598
pension from her time in
city government, including a stint as a deputy commissioner in the Department of Transportation.
One key point of agreement for Republicans in the House and Senate is that they reject Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's
plan to shift $ 400 million a year in teacher
pension fund costs to
cities and towns.
About a year ago, she openly Cuomo's
plan to postpone
pension costs for
cities a «gimmick» on the op - ed page of The New York Times.
And unlike a public sector
pension plan, which is protected by the state constitution and whose benefits can't be diminished even in an economic crisis, the retirement savings
plan the
city is proposing would be very much subject to the vagaries of the market.
Miner has gained state - wide prominence for being critical of Cuomo's
plan for
pension reform and aid to fiscally troubled upstate
cities, telling The New York Times this week «it's kicking the can down the road.»
The
city adopted changes to our participation in the NYS police
pension plan which will lead to more officers retiring after 20 years of service.
The
city's unfunded obligation for post-employment benefits other than
pensions grew by nearly $ 39 billion to $ 92.5 billion between fiscal years 2006 and 2013, and will likely continue to grow during the financial
plan period
The
plan, put forward last month, would not increase state aid to
cities or do much to reform tax,
pension or labor laws.
And after a
city actuarial analysis found New Yorkers are living longer than they used to, the
city is now
planning to spend an additional roughly $ 600 million a year to help fund its
pension obligations.
The
plan, which the mayor stressed was merely an agreement «in principle» between
city officials and labor leaders, would create a single, consolidated
pension investment management board that would manage all five of the
city's existing
pension funds.
Syracuse mayor Stephanie Miner, a Democrat and then co-chair of the state's Democratic party, stunned the Cuomo Administration when she openly criticized a
plan he announced during his 2013 annual address that would have allowed
cities to defer
pension payments.
Syracuse would save $ 43.5 million on
pension payments in the first five years if the
city opted into the
plan.
The
city's savings would be paid for at the tail end of the 25 - year
plan, when
pension costs are expected to drop as new employees with less costly
pensions replace older workers.
The
pension proposal — a collaboration between de Blasio,
City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and Public Advocate Letitia James — would allow workers at companies with 10 or more employees to enroll in self - funded retirement
plans.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse
city leaders said they will have to do some research to decide whether a new
pension payment
plan proposed today by Gov. Andrew Cuomo will help address the
city's fiscal crisis or just delay the hard choices to be made.
Unlike New York
City's public employee
pension, which voted to exit its hedge fund portfolio, the state
pension isn't
planning to yank its money from hedge funds, Fuller said.
One of those tough decisions, says Miner, came two years ago, when she broke with the Cuomo administration, and refused to let the
city take part in the governor's
plan to reduce skyrocketing
pension costs by letting municipalities pay them off over a long period of time.
He pointed to the power the
city's
pension funds have in the companies they invest in, as well as the ability to audit the
city's finances as the tools he
planned to use should he get elected.
The two have not talked to each other since October, but they have had a public exchange all spring over the governor's proposal to help
cities like Syracuse with a
plan to smooth
pension costs over time.
In June 2012, San Jose mayor Chuck Reed convinced a seventy - to - thirty majority of his
city's voters to endorse changes to
pension and retiree health care
plans for
city workers.
Last year, for every $ 1 the
city paid in teacher salaries, it put $ 0.36455 into the
city's
pension plan.
In June of 2012, a majority of San Jose, CA voters approved changes to
pension and retiree health care
plans for
city workers.
Governor Bruce Rauner's recent
pension bill would allow Chicago and other municipalities to file for bankruptcy, a mechanism which would allow the
city to start over, restructure its past debt, and reform its
pensions plans (but even in this case, there would be obstacles around when Chicago could actually file because of the way the
city reports its debt).
If a teacher moves from PSRS to one of the
city plans, he or she will incur a significant loss in
pension wealth.