A handful of judges who are collecting both their salary and a pension for a formerly held judicial office will be barred from serving beyond their mandatory retirement age under a new rule adopted by the Administrative Board of the Courts.
The board of the courts on Wednesday decided it would not recertify Supreme Court justices who are beyond 70 if they continue to collect their $167,000 salary on top of pensions that range from $82,805 to $94,527 a year. It took action immediately after Gov. Andrew Cuomo addressed the double-dipping issue at a meeting with the editorial board of the New York Daily News.
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