file photo by Boyd Loving
January 5,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Trenton NJ, Many firefighters, emergency medical technicians and other volunteer first responders in New Jersey are being told to leave their posts for six months.
The State of New Jersey is saying that technically these volunteers hold two positions and must terminate from both positions in order to qualify for retirement benefits, when they retire .
State law says there must be a six-month separation of service from the town retires from before he can receive any compensation from the town again or else he puts his pension in jeopardy.
State Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi (R-Westwood) said many towns rely heavily on volunteer services. Thus, she introduced a bill two years ago that would get rid of the six-month separation for firefighters.
“Went through committee unanimously; went through the entire senate unanimously,” Schepisi said.
The problem is that the bill has not been put up for a final vote in the assembly. If it is not voted on by this week, it expires.
Only Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto (D-Secaucus) can bring the bill up for a vote. Schepisi said he assured her it would move forward, but so far, it has not
Assemblywomen Holly Schepisi , “For my NJ friends please call your state assembly representatives and ask them to get Assembly Bill A-536 posted for a vote by Speaker Vincent Prieto on Monday. Our volunteer firefighters and EMS face losing their pensions if they continue to volunteer after retirement from a State, school or municipal job. My bill fixes this absurd requirement but time is running out.”
What ‘volunteer’ firefighters get pension?
“What ‘volunteer’ firefighters get pension?”
Ones in NJ
relatives of Mayors???
The village of Ridgewood loves hiring retirees to replace open positions. What it is , is a chess move,
Love what they do, But how do you get any type of pension without putting in $$ a pension pension?
They get a pension from the first job they left, not from the volunteering.
Do you know how many employees there retire wait six months and come back to work part time. They have no life.
I know the talk in the hall “s is that they are talking about making a project manager working from the town hall building. Who it is, A retiree . If this is true that’s just what we need more waste of money.
Our firefighters, even the mayor’s offspring that don’t work for the police department, are not volunteers.
No I don’t 8:34. How many ?
U must be one of the no life “ers. A lot . In the state county and local 1,768
So where did you get that number. Did you pull out of you hat? Or did the project manger tell you that.
8:40 “I know the talk in the hall “s ” Stop hanging around the halls and get a life.
8:40 is the Village of Ridgewood (Official Hall Monitor ) A new job created by Roberta for one of her friends.
We are reading this and laughing . Who is the project manager. Did someone get a Promotion.
For information that number came from South Jersey news. Published on 7-6-17 by civil service commission regarding X full-time employees that were paying into the pension, and after there retirement of six months reinstated to part time and not paying into system. Local miscibilities like it because they are utilizing their experience donut that hire full-time and pay into the pension system, and benefits program. So I did not pull that out of my hat . Just the local newspaper, now if that was missed printed so be it .
Thank you
Fred j Colin.
212-563-9865
Ok. I stand corrected.
Shit storm,””””””
The question is who is going to be the new project manager of the village Ridgewood. And is that going to be a civil service title??? Time will tell, who will be the newest ass kisser , Some say, well well, I don’t want to get out that info just yet, remember this could be you’ll hogwash, writing on the wall. Right you know who, Mr. and Mrs. See where it goes. Yeah We got your number.
So what is the holdup ? This is crazy, I can’t believe there’s an issue with a volunteer who DOES NOT get benefits to continue to serve their community
Anonymous January 6, 2018 at 8:45 am
U must be one of the no life “ers. A lot . In the state county and local 1,768
And who are you going to call when your house is burning? Moron