The Louisiana Supreme Court says it will consider whether a state retirement system must pay what the system says is nearly $79,000 a year too much to the former head of the Southern University System.
The Associated Press reports a state retirement system cut Ralph Slaughter’s benefits and is withholding money to collect the alleged overpayment. A spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a query about that total. Lower courts say the system cannot do that just because of a bureaucratic error.
Slaughter retired in 2009 as president of the nation’s largest historically black university system, with retirement pay of $24,487.95 a month. His contract as president included a state salary of $220,000 a year, plus $200,000 a year from the Southern University Foundation.
The university notified the retirement system in 2010 that it mistakenly included foundation money in Slaughter’s state retirement base pay.
