Some readers of this blog had questioned why certain borough
retirees are still appearing on the borough bills and receiving $3,000 for supplemental
health care costs when: They are well
over the age of 65 and on Medicare.
People like Tony Luna and Bruce Masopust had been
casually handing out lifetime perks to the politically connected for decades
without disclosing it to the public. A
town listed as having one of the worst tax burdens in New Jersey had been
awarding lifetime benefits to select retirees, an action far beyond the responsibility of any borough and its taxpayers.
Most people you speak to believe that a town stops paying
for health care costs when a public employee is retired and receiving Medicare.
Link to a contract signed by Tony Luna and Bruce
Masopust in 2010 that the borough is using to explain why it using Lodi tax
dollars to pay lifetime benefits to select retirees that are already receiving
Medicare:
