If the bill is enacted, it seems unlikely the Senate would vote to propose a constitutional amendment guaranteeing pension contributions be made quarterly.
Don’t like the idea of New Jersey's pension funds being almost $80 billion behind? A new report has an even more startling, incomprehensible number: $235 billion.
New Jersey is getting better about divulging its tops-in-the-nation debt burden but still isn’t entirely up front about the depth of that hole, says a think tank report.
Senators are still trying to line up votes for the Transportation Trust Fund's gas tax hike. Without them, a deadline for a pension funding amendment may pass.
A decade after lawmakers voted to strip pensions from public officials convicted of corruption, more than $1 million a year is still being paid to them.
Q. I have to retire from my state job on Sept. 1, 2016 to get health benefits paid for life — an offer I can’t refuse. I’m 62 and will start collecting a small pension. Can I also collect unemployment? Dealing with cancer, I find myself in panic mode. Help!
The impasse over New Jersey’s transportation funding has now gone on for more than three weeks, and Senate President Stephen Sweeney worries it could last more than three months.
State lawmakers are set to approve a $34.8 billion state budget for the 2017 fiscal year Monday. Democrats added around $275 million to Gov. Chris Christie's plan.