Sentences with phrase «pension credit legislation»

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

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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.

Cuomo and lawmakers did begin a process to rescind the pensions of legislators convicted of a felony, a concept they took credit for over a year ago but had never actually passed legislation.

Cuomo signed late Tuesday the legislation, which allows honorably discharged service members with five years of existing public pension credit to purchase three years of credit for their military service.

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

The legislation authored by Hudson Valley Republican and World War II comabt vet Sen. William Larkin, would amend current law that provides up to three years credit toward state pensions for military service during hostilities.

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