Rivera v. Patino

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

PECKHAM, Chief Judge.

This case involves the statutory reduction of unemployment benefits by recently-enacted pension offset provisions. The newly-enacted state and federal provisions require that certain pensions be offset dollar-for-dollar against unemployment insurance benefits for which the pensioner would otherwise be eligible. Thus, a worker who accrued a pension at one job, retired, found that the pension was not sufficient to meet his needs, found another job, and then was laid off from that second job, might be denied all or part of the unemployment insurance…