Cynthia Blair said she relies on a $3,000-a-month pension earned by her husband, a police sergeant, who died in 2004.
WHEN GERTRUDE JANEWAY died in 2003, she was still getting a monthly cheque for $70 from the Veterans Administration for a military pension earned by her late husband, John, on the Union side of the American civil war that ended in 1865.
Ex-senior Scotland Yard officer Mr Paddick, whose income is mainly a £63,000 police pension, earned £344,146 in three years to that date and paid £100,693 in income tax.
In his note, he blamed "a collaborationist" government for cutting his pension, earned after 35 years of work as a pharmacist, to the extent that was no longer possible for him to survive with dignity.
(Defined-benefit plans, by contrast, traditionally have been structured so that the additional pension earned from working past a certain age is minimal).
Mrs. Kindle and her husband, Joseph, 70, a retired painter with a union pension, earn less than half of that amount.
There is, of course, no argument for canceling a pension already earned.
Of course, the commission has a dog in this fight: Its refusal to trim its costs, including generous salaries and pensions, earned it a rebuke last week from the British prime minister, David Cameron, who said its officials continue to "exist as if in a parallel universe".
Illinois passed a law that sharply reduces the pensions earned by public workers hired after Jan . 1 2011 (except police and firefighters).
Kansas, for example, gives a full exclusion for Kansas pensions but none for pensions earned working for other states.
