Shafer v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board

Riley, Patrick J., J.

INTRODUCTION

Before the Court are numerous actions arising out of municipal retirement boards’ denials of requests from the plaintiffs, who are retired police and fire chiefs, to calculate retirement benefits to include as part of their “regular compensation” the personal use value of motor vehicles provided to them during their employment by their employers. Three of these actions are here for judicial review under G.L.c. 30A, § 14, after the Contributory Retirement Appeal Board (CRAB) affirmed the local retirement boards’ decisions, which in most respects contradicted…