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How did they accidentally overpay for 13 years? That’s crazy. It’s hard to blame them for not returning the money as the money will purchase less than they had originally planned for their retirement thanks to our monopoly fiat currency.
Yes. On one side of the issue we have a group of “Portland’s Finest” refusing to cooperate with the city in figuring out some way to pay back the taxpayer money they possess(ed) that they did not earn and on the other side of the issue we have the city that somehow managed to overpay them for 13 years! I honestly don’t blame the beneficiaries for being sour at a city mistake that they potentially did not know about, but the fact remains that it is documented that they were receiving more than their services were worth according to contract and thus have no right to funds.
I seriously wonder if private individuals who hire private security are careless enough to overpay their employees and I seriously wonder if a private security company that found out a customer was accidentally overpaying (for any period of time, especially a loyal customer of 13 years) would simply do nothing about it (and expect to stay in business).
This is just another example of how the private sector, based on voluntaryism, *always* works best in each and every area of life.
The City of Portland could set up a withholding system to recoup the money. A minimum amount could be established to pay back the money over a fixed period of time such as a year, or 24 months. If employees wanted to voluntarily pay the money back faster than the minimum rate, they could.
What would be so hard about that?
Could it be that the overpaid retirees are hoping that their Pension fund will forgive this debt, thus cheating future retirees?
What a sad commentary on the morality and ethics of that group.
“Only 52 of the 980 beneficiaries have chosen voluntarily to pay back
their portion of the overpayments. ”
And tell me they didn’t know it all along. 928 of them would have been screaming bloody murder if they had been shortchanged that amount.
It took 13 years to receive it, it should take 13 years to retrieve it. ~$230/yr each.
The judge’s decision further substantiates a maxim I coined 40+ years ago —
“There is no justice in our legal system”
Did you see that PERS asked the state for $2 million to recoup these funds? Don’t know how much they got, but that’s over $2,000 for each collection. That’s our taxpayer dollars Why don’t they offer a $2,000 discount if they voluntarily repay the remainder? I’d rather use my tax dollars to keep the money in the economy.