Cianfrani v. Commonwealth, State Employees' Retirement Board

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

Henry J. Cianfrani, a former employee of the Commonwealth, has filed a class action in onr original jurisdiction seeking from us an order which would direct the State Employees’ Retirement Board (Board) to pay interest, counsel fees and costs on retirement benefits adjudged in Cianfrani v. State Employees’ Retirement Board (Cianfrani I), 498 Pa. 204, 445 A.2d 737 (1982) to have been illegally withheld by the Board from employees whose retirement rights vested prior to the effective date of the Public Employee Pension Forfeiture Act (Forfeiture Act), Act of July 8,…