I haven’t found anything solid about whether she still gets her pension after this suspension, but some people think the purpose behind the suspension is to “interfere” with her benefits.
“The executive order states that Snipes will not receive any pay or benefits while suspended, but it remains unclear if her suspension would affect the pension she is set to receive after her retirement as Broward’s supervisor of elections. Scott has appointed his former general counsel, Peter Antonacci, to lead the department.
Norris-Weeks said she believed Scott’s executive order was, at least in part, meant to interfere with her benefits. Mainly, she said, it was done “for the purpose of embarrassing Dr. Snipes” and “tarnishing her record.”
“for the purpose of embarrassing Dr. Snipes” and “tarnishing her record.”
Snipes doesn’t need any help in those departments.
In general, if you are found to have committed criminal acts in performance of your state or regional public job...that could have an outcome (way down the line) of lessening your pension. All total (school years and this 15 years of election management for the county)...I think her pension level is near $130k (doesn’t include social security). So I could see a reason why she’d go and rescind the resignation, and fight this.
The question here will be...was she simply incompetent, or acting on some criminal behavior. Based on what I’ve seen in the papers throughout this episode...I lean more to incompetency (I think the job was a lot more complicated than what she was capable of handling). Does her age (75) also play into this? Maybe. In a true investigation, we may find that she was just the naive and ‘slow’ older manager, and that the next two or three people under her were the ones with the criminal behavior.
I agree with that as well. She resigned so she could keep her pension in place. She's probably been using her personal time until her actual resignation date of January 4th. I wonder though if her suspension is with pay, or without. I believe Scott suspended her so that if she's criminally charged, her pension can be rescinded. In many cases, government employees that are arrested and criminally charged, are given the option to resign, instead of going through the motions of bringing them up on departmental charges, and going through an arbitration hearing. Their pensions are intact, but they will have to wait until they reach a specific age in order to collect it.
Thanks you answered somewhat my question.
Probably not, they're guaranteed under ERISA laws....