Correction officer wants $70K pension after slipping on lettuce
I know it is the New York Post, but you must read this.
He’s made a lot of cabbage for slipping on a piece of lettuce.
A Westchester County correction officer worked just one day in the past 17 years, raking in $1.2 million in disability payments.
Now, Jesus Encarnacion says the $40,000 to $50,000 a year he will get in retirement pay after 25 years on the job — a taxed pension of 50 percent of his final average salary — is not enough.
What Encarnacion wants after slipping on a piece of lettuce and hurting his wrist monitoring a jailhouse eating area nearly two decades ago is a tax-free disability pension of 75?percent that would pay him $70,000 a year.
“All I’m looking for is what’s rightfully owed to me under the contract,” Encarnacion told The Post Sunday. “I’m not looking for anything else. I’m not looking to become rich.”
Encarnacion said his on-the-job accident resulted in a permanent right-wrist injury that has left him in chronic pain and unable to perform even basic household tasks like shoveling snow outside his Peekskill home.
“I used to lift weights,” Encarnacion, 55, said. “I can’t do that anymore. I used to play baseball, basketball. Now, I have trouble dressing myself. I have to have my wife help me dress.”
Encarnacion, a father of three, says he was hurt in 1997 when he slipped on a piece of lettuce at the bottom of a set of stairs and his right wrist got caught in a railing.
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