Boekelman v. City of Algona

ALLBEE, Justice.

The sole issue in this ease concerns the amount of pension benefits payable to retired or disabled firemen and policemen under section 410.6, The Code 1979.1 Prior to 1978, plaintiffs, retired members of the Algona police department, had been receiving annual pension increases equivalent to *91one-half of the increase in pay for current active duty policemen of the same rank held by the pensioners at their retirement. In January 1978, however, the trustees of Algo-na’s police pension fund determined that they had previously misinterpreted the statute and that the annual pension…