G.M. said that by default, retirees would continue to get monthly pension checks.
Mr. Hevesi and the others could keep cashing those pension checks.
They face standing in hours-long lines to cash pension checks that don't adequately cover nutrition.
"Whether the economy is good or bad, they keep getting their Social Security and pension checks".
Months later, the state started delaying civil servants' salaries and pension checks.
If people are dying slower than anticipated, shrink those pension checks a bit.
As stocks in these accounts fall in value, so will the pension checks.
As a quid pro quo, the monthly pension checks they ultimately received were higher.
Now most nonuniformed workers, including teachers, can get pension checks at age 57, and some police officers and firefighters can receive full pension checks after working 20 years, no matter their age.
It houses people during emergencies, he noted, fights fires and crime, and (to Mr. Perry's annoyance) sends out pension checks.
The city of Prichard, Ala., has stopped sending out its pension checks, breaking state law and shocking its employees.
