Hoerner v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT

CASTILLE, Justice.

The issues before this Court are (1) whether increases in a party’s salary during his last year of employment pursuant to negotiated termination agreements constitute “severance payments” which are excludable from “compensation” for purposes of computing the party’s “final average salary” under the Public School Employes’ Retirement Code (“Retirement Code”), 24 Pa.C.S. § 8101 et seq., and (2) whether the time period for which a party is entitled to receive “credited service” under the Retirement Code ends on the date a party is relieved of all employment…