If you thought budget talks were contentious, wait a couple weeks until the Senate's working group issues final recommendations for government reforms.
New Jersey’s pension funds pay $219 million a year in accidental disability pensions to over 5,100 people. That includes 7 percent of all recipients in the Police & Firemen’s Retirement System.
A corrupt politician who managed to nearly triple his pension over just a four-year period thanks to a plush no-show job before he went to prison and lost it all tried to get back on the public dole.
Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy says Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver "will be driving a big portion of our agenda" as his lieutenant governor.
Less than two weeks remain before the date Gov. Chris Christie hopes the Legislature approves a complicated transaction involving the pension funds and lottery.
Advocates for letting a union-controlled board manage the police and fire pension say they will try again next year, after Gov. Chris Christie vetoed the idea.