Gov. Chris Christie's administration says New Jersey now expects to collect up to $200 million in additional revenue between now and June 30.

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Christie is proposing to use the windfall toward pensions for public workers.

The additional sum, if achieved, is still just one-eighth of the nearly $1.6 billion that a Superior Court judge ordered lawmakers to pay into the system after more than a dozen public sector unions sued.

The administration has appealed and arguments in the case are scheduled to be heard by the state Supreme Court Wednesday.

A spokesman for Christie says the governor is committed to making as large a pension payment as possible. But Christie says the state can't afford the full sum he had agreed to during his first term.

 

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