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cC2Panda t1_iz66k1m wrote

Reply to comment by bsanchey in NYC comptroller says Adams has ‘exacerbated’ widespread city worker vacancies by mowotlarx

I straight up don't trust government pensions moving forward. My mother was a severely underpaid paraprofessional for more than 20 years, then she took a different job that paid far better but wasn't government, but in the last few years she took another government job that pays much more than she did as a paraprofessional. She had to fight with a bunch of admin fucks because they were basically saying that because she went to a private job(for a public institution)for a few years that she would effectively be treated as a new employee and her time building her pension as a para wouldn't count.

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bsanchey t1_iz6b6e4 wrote

That’s really unfortunate. I’m sorry that happened to your mother. Your mom should consult with a lawyer who handles these things. She paid into that pensions as a paraprofessional they can’t just take the money from her like that.

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cC2Panda t1_iz6gtjf wrote

She got it corrected she just had to advocate for herself in a way that I think a lot of people wouldn't. Basically the actual way they do the math to find our final pension changed at some point, so if you were hired before a certain date you kept the old pension calculation but if you were hired after they used a different calculation the made your pension less.

They claimed that because she had a gap in employment that her pension would be calculated with the new lesser calculation, rather than the better calculations from her first job in the early 90's.

So it wasn't that they were negating her time as a para, they were making a claim that because she was re-hired that she was only able to claim benefits with a newer crappier calculation.

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