A state appeals court has rejected a city judge’s bid to receive a refund of the pension contributions taken from his paychecks from January 2008 to May 2010.
Noach Dear (See Profile), a Civil Court and acting Supreme Court justice from Brooklyn, sought to reclaim the money collected from his paychecks through the 3 percent assessment on his salary by the State and Local Retirement System. Dear argued before the state comptroller’s office, which administers the pension system, that he did not halt the assessments until May 2010, when he requested that his membership in the New York City Employees’ Retirement System be transferred to the state system.
