Educator groups upset as $500 supplement for retired teachers is blocked News for Dallas, Texas Dallas Morning News Latest News:
"AUSTIN – An estimated 250,000 retired educators in Texas won't be getting a supplemental $500 payment in December because the money was not properly appropriated, Attorney General Greg Abbott said in an opinion issued Monday."
While the attorney general said the Legislature can arrange for one-time payments to retired teachers and state employees, it did not follow the normal procedures for distributing the money earlier this year when it sent $155 million to the state comptroller rather than the state pension funds.
Of that total, about $120 million was supposed to go to retired educators and the other $35 million was slated for retired state employees.
"AUSTIN – An estimated 250,000 retired educators in Texas won't be getting a supplemental $500 payment in December because the money was not properly appropriated, Attorney General Greg Abbott said in an opinion issued Monday."
While the attorney general said the Legislature can arrange for one-time payments to retired teachers and state employees, it did not follow the normal procedures for distributing the money earlier this year when it sent $155 million to the state comptroller rather than the state pension funds.
Of that total, about $120 million was supposed to go to retired educators and the other $35 million was slated for retired state employees.