Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Are individuals gaming the state retirement system?

The previous posts on local government pensioners (http://district100watchdog.blogspot.com/2011/12/local-government-pensions.html ) indicates that Belvidere School District 100’s “business managers” receive both IMFR and Teachers’ pensions. 

I trust that this is completely legal but is this fair to the taxpayers?  Did each of those systems use those “six figure” last years salaries in calculating their respective pensions? If so—is that double counting?

Look at the numbers.

Biesladecki, James P.  $80,878 TRS   23 years

Biesladecki, James P.   $29,603 IMFR 11 years

Metz, James D.     $11,053    TRS     4 years

Metz, James D.     $10,810    IMFR    7 years

2 comments:

aplarsen said...

If both systems used the same "six-figure" salary, wouldn't the IMRF payouts be similar to the TRS ones?

bill pysson said...

No--TRS and IMFR use a differnt formula for pensions plus the # of years of service is different for these individuals TRS vs. IMFR pensions. Please understand the question of using the same income figures is being raised. We do not know that for a fact and don't know how to find out.