William Pilger v. William Sweeney

PHILLIPS, District Judge.

Plaintiffs are 13 retired union plumbers who were members of the former Iowa Local 212. Plaintiffs receive retirement benefits from the Plumbers and Pipefitters National Pension Fund (“PPNPF”). Defendants are the PPNPF, the PPNPF’s Board of Trustees, and the Board’s Administrator (collectively, “Defendants”).

In 2009, Defendants realized that, for a number of years, they had paid Plaintiffs excess retirement benefits. Defendants reduced Plaintiffs’ monthly benefit payments to the correct amounts, and then began to recoup the previous overpayments through withholding.…