Judge rules Christie’s $1.6 billion pension cut must be reversed
February 23, 2015, 4:13 PM Last updated: Monday, February 23, 2015, 4:36 PM
By MELISSA HAYES
State House Bureau |
The Record
A Superior Court judge has ruled that Governor Christie must reinstate a $1.6 billion cut he made to the state’s pension payments for the current fiscal year.
Mercer County Superior Court Assignment Judge Mary C. Jacobson issued her ruling Monday, one day before Governor Christie is set to deliver his budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.
Jacobson said the state must also reimburse the public employee unions for legal costs.
“The word for me is not vindication, it’s hope that in fact hundreds of thousands of workers will not have their pensions taken away from them,” said Hetty Rosenstein, state director of the Communications Workers of America, one of the unions in the lawsuit.
The governor’s office did not immediately comment Monday.