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Retired state workers collecting $200k pensions up 20%

BY RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 7/18/25

Nearly 100 former state workers were eligible to collect pensions of at least $200,000 during the most recent fiscal year, according to the Empire Center’s crunching of figures from the New York State and Local Retirement System.

Last year’s top-five pension earners remained the same, with Kara C. Bennorth Hubertus, who retired from Westchester County Health Care Corp. in 2023, topping the list. Bennorth Hubertus, who was eligible to collect $503,128 in pension benefits in the fiscal year ending in March, remains the state pension system’s sole “half-million retiree.” 

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