The Auditor General’s office announced today that $289 million in municipal pension aid was distributed on October 1st to 1,479 municipalities and regional affiliations (multi-municipal police forces). Another $60 million was distributed for volunteer fire companies, bringing the total disbursement statewide to $350 million for these purposes.
Pension aid comes from a tax on fire insurance and casualty premiums sold in Pennsylvania by out-of-state companies (the tax and the distribution formula is described in this piece from 2008).
From the October distribution recipients in Allegheny County received $44 million in pension aid. Combined with Philadelphia’s distribution ($72 million) that accounted for 40% of the distribution. A detailed list of the recipients in Allegheny County for pension aid, volunteer fire aid and other pension aid is available here.
