Sentences with phrase «pension bills for»

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Four years ago, Corbett got an advance on his private pension — selling a $ 237,000 nest egg for $ 89,000 — to pay off his mounting bills.

The defeat was the most serious setback for Prodi's nine - month - old coalition government, also deeply divided over a host of domestic issues ranging from the budget, pension reform and a bill giving legal recognition to gay and unwed couples.

Sylvia and myself and a few other people, including our general counsel, figured out a way to borrow from the civil service pension funds, and that gave us the resources to continue to meet our bills for a long, long time.

But then the airline Bill had spent 36 years working for went bankrupt and he lost his pension and health insurance.

Pensions are a concern for Bill Saunders, too.

The day may well come when NYC retirees have Bill de Blasio to thank for a default on their pensions.

Palatine homeowners will see higher property tax bills in order to pay for higher local pension costs, as well as a dip in state funding.

The average Chicago property tax bill is going up about 10 percent this year following City Hall and Chicago Public Schools tax hikes to pay for police, fire and teacher pensions, according to calculations released Tuesday by the Cook County clerk's office.

Part of their agreement was that while the one was recuperating, the other would do the shopping for her, pay her bills at the bank (to save on postage), cash her pension check, etc..

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

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«The prospect of savings to the massive pensions bill should be an incentive for all wings of government to work together to prioritise closing the health gap.»

McGrath has announced his support for a bill that would strip elected officials of their pensions if convicted of a felony.

In proposing tighter rules for lobbying before the pension fund, Gov. Andrew Cuomo also said he wanted to put end to corrupt officials receiving their pensions, but no bill has been produced.

There would, however, be a separate bill in which Cuomo seeks an agreement to allow some police officers, firefighters and members of the New York City Employees» Retirement System, which includes corrections officers, to qualify for enhanced accidental disability pension benefits, according to an anonymous administration official who spoke to the New York Times.

These account for around # 110 billion of the total welfare bill — the lion's share of which is spent on pensions.

«Bill Larkin and John Bonacic should be ashamed of themselves for bilking taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by claiming both a regular salary and pension at the same time,» Orange County Democratic Chairman Brett Broge said.

These bills provide various pension and payroll benefits to State and local workers but provide no funding to pay for them.

For the first time in 11 years, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted 15 - 7 in favor of a bipartisan bill that would prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

The legislature passed bills to provide voluntary firefighters with the same disability benefits that professional firefighters receive and increase disability pensions for airport firefighters.

As expected, Cuomo also vetoed several pension sweetener bills, including a measure restoring early retirement rights for uniformed state court officers.

Here's a win for the Democrats, they were able to water pension forfeiture bill down so about as useful as a 1 armed paper hanger.

Schumer, the Senate minority leader, and King met with Teamsters Local 707 in Hempstead to push for the bill, which could help fund pensions for 4,500 Long Island families, including more than 3,700 retirees, Schumer said.

«As I researched the idea of promoting savings in our sector, the idea of credit union came into mind and I said that's it because it dawned on me that majority of the people don't have savings accounts, insurance cover or even pension schemes and since I became the Chairman of GHAMRO I really felt the pinch because every now and then I get calls from members asking for advance payment of their royalty to either pay school fees, settle medical bills or to even solve other financial problems then I've realized that this vacuum has to be filled because GHAMRO doesn't have a policy to pay this type of monies».

The ethics bill was the latest attempt by Cuomo and legislators to respond to the wave of investigations, arrests and convictions that have tainted state government for nearly a decade, starting with the arrest of former state Comptroller Alan Hevesi in a probe that revealed state pension fund bribes and kickbacks.

Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith suggested that Maria Miller is undergoing a Tory backlash for her role in the same - sex marriage Bill.

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio is getting a rare boost from a top Bloomberg aide, as former deputy mayor Howard Wolfson called Governor Andrew Cuomo's embrace of disability pension reform that police and fire unions are clamoring for «surprising and disappointing from a taxpayer perspective.»

«The legislature passed several pension bills that sweetened pension benefits for employees.

It's practically an annual tradition for state lawmakers at the end of the legislative session: approving bills designed to expand pension benefits for public employees.

The LLC bills, introduced «a la carte» on May 24, have been a non-starter for the Republican - controlled state Senate, leaving only pension forfeiture.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a tentative agreement on Thursday with the New York City firefighters» union for a seven - year labor pact that includes retroactive raises for firefighters, new disability pension protections and increased staffing for 20 of the Fire Department's roughly 200 engine companies by 2019.

The bill states: «It is unfair to the general public and ethically inappropriate that an elected official who is eligible to receive a pension can retire, collect a government pension and still be re-elected to another position and collect an additional salary for the newly elected position.»

For amidst all this private pension gloom, the taxpayers» bill for public sector pension provision seems to grow exponentialFor amidst all this private pension gloom, the taxpayers» bill for public sector pension provision seems to grow exponentialfor public sector pension provision seems to grow exponentially.

A bill that would have added $ 51,000 to the pension of former Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz never came up for a vote in Albany after it was exposed in The Post.

Taxpayers are also footing the bill for the recent losses in the pension system's investments.

Because if we want to protect those things we care about, like generous pensions and decent healthcare, and buy the best equipment for the brave men and women who fight in our armed forces, all of us are going to have to confront the costs of modern government — and cap working age welfare bills.

The mayor unveiled a $ 47 million proposed bill that would call for Albany to increase disability benefits of «uniformed» public employees hired after 2009 by changing the payment formula, boosting cost - of - living adjustments and ending the policy of subtracting the workers» Social Security earnings from their pension checks.

All five Borough Presidents sit on the Board of Trustees of the city's pension fund — including Scott Stringer, who defeated Spitzer to win the Democratic nomination for City Comptroller, and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.

The current bill would change a constitutional protection for public workers that their pension «shall not be diminished or impaired.»

Sen. Tom Duane added that Gov. Cuomo's support is crucial for a bill's passage, observing that the governor's track record on marriage reform and pension benefits is clear evidence that «when he puts his mind to something, he can win.»

As for the pension forfeiture bill, Speaker Heastie says lawmakers actually have until the end of 2016 before they have to finalize the first step to change the state's constitution, so he says there's plenty of time to agree on a new bill.

In an interview with WCBS 880's Steve Scott, Paterson noted that he vetoed a bill in 2009 that would have extended a long - standing pension program for police, saying he believed pensions are «killing our economy» and didn't feel the police union was negotiating fairly with the state.

And Flanagan blamed the Assembly for failing to pass into law in 2015 an agreed upon bill to strip public pensions from lawmakers who are convicted of felonies.

Off topic question topics included whether the mayor and his wife have smoked marijuana inside Gracie Mansion, a Daily News call for the mayor to «accept responsibility for inflaming the police», whether the mayor believes he should apologize for comments on the police, whether the Democratic National Committee has expressed concerns about current mayoral / police friction as it considers Brooklyn as a site for the 2016 Democratic Convention, whether the mayor supports the recent Cuomo / Christie veto of legislation on the Port Authority, a pending state legislative bill on police disability pensions, the expected special election in the 11th Congressional District, whether the mayor believes there is a police slowdown, the dismay of the recently shot and wounded police officers at Mayor de Blasio's hospital visit, the possible change in the Staten Island Chuck / Groundhog Day ceremony, the meeting today between Police Commissioner Bratton and union leaders and how Mayor de Blasio envisions the current mayoral / police friction ending.

On Tuesday, the second - term lawmaker also slammed lawmakers in both houses for failing to include pension forfeiture bills in ethics reform packages earlier this year.

The third bill, according to Adesina, is the National Intelligence Agency Pensions (Establishment) Bill, 2017, which is to administer the pensions scheme for personnel of the Agency, sequel to the exit of the Agency from the application of the Contributory Pension's Scheme under the Pension's Reform Act, 2bill, according to Adesina, is the National Intelligence Agency Pensions (Establishment) Bill, 2017, which is to administer the pensions scheme for personnel of the Agency, sequel to the exit of the Agency from the application of the Contributory Pension's Scheme under the Pension's Reform AcPensions (Establishment) Bill, 2017, which is to administer the pensions scheme for personnel of the Agency, sequel to the exit of the Agency from the application of the Contributory Pension's Scheme under the Pension's Reform Act, 2Bill, 2017, which is to administer the pensions scheme for personnel of the Agency, sequel to the exit of the Agency from the application of the Contributory Pension's Scheme under the Pension's Reform Acpensions scheme for personnel of the Agency, sequel to the exit of the Agency from the application of the Contributory Pension's Scheme under the Pension's Reform Act, 2004.

Cuomo was criticized during an all - night session in mid-March for issuing special messages of necessity to allow the Senate and Assembly to pass bills as soon as deals were struck on topics like a new pension tier for public workers, and redistricting lines.

ALBANY — The annual tradition in the State Legislature of proposing «sweeteners» to state pensions for workers and retirees represented by politically powerful unions has produced 120 bills so far worth hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits, according to the independent Citizens Budget Commission.

The bills would increase benefits, expand eligibility for pensions, ease restrictions on health care benefits and increase death benefits.

* The 62 - year - old Mayor will continue efforts to persuade Governor Cuomo to veto a bill that would raise pension benefits for some retired city employees and cost the city about $ 100 million a year.