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Committee advances bill to count higher workers’ compensation pay in municipal pension calculations
Summary
The Labor and Public Employees Committee moved House Bill 5609 to the floor, a measure that would require municipalities to include certain workers’ compensation disability benefits in pension final-average-salary calculations when those benefits exceed the wages otherwise used in the pension calculation.
The Labor and Public Employees Committee moved House Bill 5609 to the floor after debate over whether the legislature should require municipalities to include workers’ compensation benefits in pension final-average-salary calculations.
The bill (LCO 6592) would require municipalities to count an employee’s workers’ compensation temporary total or temporary partial disability benefits as wages for pension calculations if those benefits exceed the wages otherwise used to compute an employee’s final average salary. The provision would apply regardless of other statute or special act and…
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