Hoerner v. Commonwealth

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• holding that the Pennsylvania retirement board, not the language of employee’s negotiated termination agreement, had the power to determine benefits due under that State’s retirement code
• credited service is limited to “the time period where the employee actually engaged in work for” the employer
• Salary increase made strictly pursuant to termination agreements are tantamount to severance payments and such increases should not have been used in calculating a retiree's final average salary for purposes of retirement benefits.
• Salary increase made strictly pursuant to termination agreements are tantamount to severance payments and such increases should not have been used in calculating a retiree's final average salary for purposes of retirement benefits.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).