CHANGES TO YOUR PENSIONS IN 2026<\/p>\n
Budget reform restores long-sought pension parity<\/p>\n
By CARTER MYERS-BROWN<\/p>\n
Posted 6\/5\/26<\/p>\n
New York City correction officers and sanitation workers within the Tier 3 retirement plan will now be able to retire with full pension benefits after 20 years of service, achieving long-sought parity with police officers and firefighters under a provision included in the recently passed state budget.<\/p>\n
The change institutes what unions have described as a \u201c20-and-out\u201d retirement system for thousands of workers hired after 2012, allowing them to collect full pension benefits two years earlier than under the current structure.<\/p>\n
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