Paying the piper.

AuthorShackford, Scott
PositionPension funding - Chris Christie on the public employees' pension fund and New Jersey budget - Brief article

In 2011, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hammered out a plan with the state legislature to address Trenton's underfunded public employees' pension fund. To make up for hundreds of millions of dollars that should have been paid into the fund--but wasn't across several administrations--the state would agree to ramp up contributions. In return, public sector employees would also contribute more to their own retirement. The deal was aimed at closing the state's pension gap, estimated at between $80 billion and $3oo billion, by 2018.

But then lean times hit and Christie attempted to take a machete to his own agreement. Facing budget shortfalls, he cut more than $2 billion in money the state was supposed to contribute to the pension fund from his two most recent budgets.

Public sector unions sued...

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