His pension based on those numbers now is slightly over 10K. He was on a defined benefit plan and worked decades meaning more than 20 years. To me that seems like a small number and if accurate, cutting that pension a third is not realistic. Perhaps pensions at that meager amount should be excluded from the decrease. Incidently, the average pension of general employees in Detroit is about 18.5K per year.
If there is not money to pay these meager pension costs, somebody der been skimming da pot for der own benefit I think. Perhaps the politicians who made this mess up should be sued for their entire pensions citing they violated their fiduciary responsibility to their employees.
Which means some are getting too little and some too much. This fellow is on the bottom end of that spectrum.
You're right. A 1/3 cut to a $100,000 pension is nothing. But a 1/3 cut to $10,000 pension would be inhumane.
Detroit should use a sliding scale of some sort.