Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System v. Taylor

JOSEPHINE LINKER HART, Justice.

11 After the elected treasurer for Garland County, Jo West Taylor, had received monthly retirement checks for more than a year and a half from the Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System (APERS), APERS Executive Director Gail Stone terminated Taylor’s benefits. The decision to stop paying benefits to Taylor followed an internal investigation of roughly 300 elected officials who were fully employed yet receiving retirement checks — colloquially referred to as “double dipping.” Taylor appealed Stone’s decision to the APERS Board of Trustees (the Board), where…