Posted on 02/04/2018 12:29:25 PM PST by LibWhacker
When Capt. Tia Morris turned 50, after about three decades in the Los Angeles Police Department, she became eligible to retire with nearly 90% of her salary.
But like many cops and firefighters in her position, the decision to keep working was a financial no-brainer, thanks to a program that allowed her to nearly double her pay by keeping her salary while also collecting her pension.
A month after Morris entered the program, her husband, a detective, joined too. Their combined income for four years in the Deferred Retirement Option Plan was just shy of $2 million, city payroll records show.
But the city didn’t benefit much from the Morrises’ experience: They both filed claims for carpal tunnel syndrome and other cumulative ailments about halfway through the program. She spent nearly two years on disability and sick leave; he missed more than two years, according to a Times analysis of city payroll data. Morris pay chart
The couple spent at least some of their paid time off recovering at their condo in Cabo San Lucas and starting a family theater production company with their daughter, according to Tia Morris’ Facebook posts and her self-published autobiography. They declined to comment for this story.
The Morrises are far from alone. In fact, they’re among hundreds of Los Angeles police and firefighters who have turned the DROP program — which has doled out more than $1.6 billion in extra pension payments since its inception in 2002 — into an extended leave at nearly twice the pay, a Times investigation has found.
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And notice that the person who posted the other thread made up their own title so that searching the correct one would not yield a hit on a search. They’re the problem with the double-post of this article, not LibWhacker.
BenLurkin (and now artichokegrower) posted the article using the last part of the title. I posted it using the first part. The problem is the title is too long for FR’s rules. So posters have to pick and choose which part of the title to use.
I agree with using out of area/ out of state medical resources other than the department sanctioned doctors to combat the scammers.
I actually don’t care about double or triple postings....I was just providing the original thread so people can see all possible comments.
Ah, gotcha. I’ve seen that before.
As much as I agree, I’m sure they would tell us with the straightest faces imaginable and no sense of irony that they earned every penny and are simply enjoying the fruits of their “service.”
You’re probably right.
A similar sort of scam goes on out east. I remember reading an article here on FR about a doctor marveling at a man on the verge of retirement not claiming some sort of disability like nearly every other fellow officer had done. He was the exception that proved the rule, so to speak.
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