Hey Dumb - having fought the Nazis, and unlike everybody else on this site, at least he used his real name, unlike your
anonymous attack on him.
Please regale us with your contributions to our nation’s well being.
Not being rude, just asking.
What exactly is your problem? Seems to me Confirmed knows the pension system a heck of a lot better than you do. A poster challenged whether Snow's methodology was accurate, which it was. Confirmed said right up front he couldn't calcualate a pension for Infurna because he didn't have the applicable numbers. All he did was post the formula for how a pension would be calculated. It's not garbage. It's accurate. Here's a piece of advice for you - it's far better to be thought an a$$hole than to open you mouth and confirm it.
It's clear that your problem is with Bob Snow. I get that, but why jump all over someone who has presented accurate and factual information about how pensions are calculated? Seems to me he was just trying to correct some of the misstatements and misunderstandings from previous posts.
There are a lot of people who don't read that useless rag of a local paper, myself included, and I don't see Infurna's statement anywhere on the online version either. I also don't see Confirmed casting any aspersions on Infurna. All he/she did was provide accurate information about how pensions are calculated. What's wrong with that? Maybe if you have an issue with Snow you should take it up with Snow.
According to MGL Chapter 32, any full time (20 or more hours per week) employee MUST join the pension system. Any part time employee who was employed prior to 2009 had the option to join or not.
And this is why my previous comment was relevant:
"If no one with first hand knowledge has corroborated your theory, then I don't really see the need for you to scream fire in a crowded theater."
Seems she won't be getting that million-dollar payday now that we've heard her side of the story.
Let's delete this misleading thread and move on.
Pretty simple. Snow's article was right in theory. Infurna attempted to fleece taxpayers by buying back her time to get back into the pension program, but her laziness cost her big time! If she could have, she would have and we'd be pumping tens of thousands of our dollars into a worthless slobs retirement for years to come for all of 20 months as interim mayor.
That is correct. Don't forget that the year to year percentage increases are graduated - smaller in the earlier years, and growing larger by far in the last ten, and especially the last five. My memory is that the increases are 2.5% per year over the last five before maxing out. The entire payout would come from Lynnfield.
I'm not sure how the health care thing will work. I'd guess he'll maintain his Melrose coverage rather than swap to Lynnfield's and then have to reenroll here - provided there is provision for reenrollment in that case.
If the Doughboy transfers his retirement to Lynnfield he is he not a retiree, and he is definitely not an employee of Melrose. I would think that he would have to take Lynnfield's healthcare plan, or his wife's if she has a plan.
OK, he says 82. That means he was nine years old when WW II ended.
It's the internet, Jake.
Maybe I missed it, but I can't find a single post where he said he fought in WWII. He would have been about 17 at the end of the Korean War (1953). Unlikely, but possible, I guess. More likely was Vietnam. The first US Combat unit arrived there in 1965, but US advisors were sent there beginning in about 1955. So between 1955 and 1975 he would have been between 19 and 39.
He's 11 years older than me, and I got there in 1967. In 1967 I was 19, a PFC and had a year time in service, but most of the NCO's and officers were older than that when they were sent.
There are plenty of guys my age and older whose typing skills, as well as grammatical skills, are horrendous. Yeah, it's a little distracting and can be annoying to a grammar Nazi, but how about cutting the guy a little slack? I'm just hoping I make it to 82.
Gotta Love it. The guy who retired on a Public Pension complains about the interim mayor being able to collect a public pension some day. And he lives in New Hampshire!