Sentences with phrase «veterans pension credit»

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After vetoing a similar measure only weeks ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers have agreed in advance on legislation to expand a pension credit for veterans.

The legislation agreed to would expand the number of veterans that were not previously covered in the current law and remove barriers that prevented women who served in the military from additional pension credits due to now - discarded policy that barred women from being deployed in combat.

Current state law allows veterans who served in only certain conflicts, including World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, to purchase pension credits.

Current law prescribes only veterans who have served in specific conflicts receive up to additional three years of service credit in the pension system.

Twice before, the state Legislature has passed a bill that would allow all veterans to get a three - year service credit in the state's pension system, regardless of when and where they served.

Veterans are making a renewed push for a pension benefit credit legislation that has been vetoed multiple times.

Cuomo celebrated Veterans Day by announcing a deal to let public workers obtain additional pension credits for military service.

ALBANY — The sponsors of a bill that would have allowed veterans to buy pension credit for service during peacetime condemned Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday for his decision to veto the measure.

The bill, sponsored by Senator Bill Larkin and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, would have allowed veterans who served during peacetime to purchase up to three years of extra pension credit at a greatly discounted price.

Heading into Veterans Day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has vetoed legislation that would have authorized state pension credits for peacetime military service.

The ability to purchase up to three years of potentially valuable pension credit time is available to all state and local workers honorably discharged from the military from World War II through 1975, and to veterans of specific combat theaters including Grenada, Panama, and the Middle East, but not yet to veterans of Somalia, the Balkans or Afghanistan, among other more recent conflicts.

Nonetheless, the veterans» pension credit legislation would have required localities to eat the cost for their eligible employees.

Veterans who served during World War II, the Korean War, the War in Vietnam are eligible for the pension credit, as are workers who served in the military during a variety of conflicts in the 1980s and 1990s.

Governor Andrew Cuomo on May 31 signed into law a bill that enables public school teachers and other public employees who are honorably discharged veterans and have five years in their civilian jobs to purchase up to three years of service credit toward their pensions.

Existing law allows only veterans who served during certain periods of combat — including World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and Iraq — to obtain pension credits for their military service.

ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo celebrated Veterans Day Wednesday by announcing a deal to let public workers obtain additional pension credits for military service.

Under the deal, Cuomo and lawmakers will craft a measure to be included in next year's budget that would give honorably discharged veterans who work in state or local governments the chance to purchase up to three years credit on their public pensions.

Do not include: — Old Age Security Pension (Canadian), Guaranteed Income Supplement, Allowance or Allowance for the Survivor — War Veterans Allowance or Veterans Disability or Dependents Pension Program — Death Benefits from Canada Pension Plan or Quebec Pension Plan — Canada Child Tax Benefit payments — Assistance payments from a municipal, provincial or Canadian federal government — Support or gifts from relatives, registered charities or other organizations — Municipal tax rebates — Lottery winnings — Inheritances — GST credits or other such payments issued by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)-- Universal Child Care Benefit — Registered Disability Savings Plan payments