New Jersey’s high court is deciding whether public employees should be allowed to direct their pensions’ death benefits to special-needs trusts for their disabled children.

Retired firefighter Thomas Saccone has been trying for more than five years to have benefits put in trust for his son, Anthony, in order to avoid the ineligibility for public assistance that would result if the son got the money directly.

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