City Recalculates Salary Payback for Reservist Employees
WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010
The city has revised its calculations of the amount of money that must be paid back by city employees who were called up for military duty after 9/11.
City employees who were deployed collected both city and military paychecks. But once they returned, they had to repay the lesser of their military or city pay.
Veterans groups complained that the city was including military food and housing allowances in its calculations.
With the new change, the city will count only salaries and exclude the allowances, Mayor Bloomberg said during his weekly radio address Friday.
The change, which is retroactive, will cost the city $24 million and will benefit more than 1400 reservists.
