He also refused to explain the agreement he said had been reached on a plan to increase pensions for retired state and local government workers.

The pension supplementation measure would increase payments to almost 400,000 retired state and city workers.

Mr. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, said his house was unlikely to approve a permanent cost-of-living adjustment to the pensions of retired state and city workers.

That assessment by the mayor came after state lawmakers agreed this week to give retired state and city government workers annual cost-of-living increases in their pensions.

B3 Deal on Pension Increases State leaders in Albany reached agreement on giving annual cost-of-living pension increases to retired state and local government workers.

One would have increased the pensions of more than 250,000 retired state and local government workers.

Koch Offers Hit List The measure would affect 180,000 retired city workers and 220,000 retired state and local workers.

State lawmakers agreed today to give annual cost-of-living pension increases for the first time to retired state and local government workers.

Such thinking is misplaced where a qualified mediator, the retired state Supreme Court justice Samuel G. Fredman, has agreed to mediate.

Your aunt and I have both been attempting to coax her back out of her retired state.