“Eydie Triquet’s original Pension cash bonus contract of $262,196 was scheduled to be paid on June 30, 2023”, noted Dave Jaye, “But on June 20, 2023 greedy Eydie Triquet used her political position to extend her pension cash bonus period to from five to eight years increasing her pension cash bonus to $468,266 and monthly pension from approximately $2,681 to $4,791! Elected School Superintendent Edyie Triquet exploited her political position by signing up for a Triple Dipper Program where Triquet collected a paycheck and a pension at the same time to do the same job and doesn’t pay 3% of her $118,764 salary ($3,562), into the Florida Retirement System like other public employees”.

“Sneaky Politician Eydie Triquet is greedy. How many gourmet meals, luxury cars, and vacation homes does one person need or can even use? How much of the $468,266 taxpayer-paid pension bonus will School Superintendent Eydie Triquet promise, in writing, to donate to charity? Superintendent Edyie Triquet is setting a disgraceful benchmark for personal enrichment in Florida Public Schools.”

Jefferson County Florida Poverty Rate is 16% 26% higher than Florida’s State wide poverty rate of 12.7% The average Jefferson County worker makes only $27,300 which is $13.13 an hour. Jefferson County regular working men and women would have to labor 22.8 years to make Politician School Superintendent Eydie Triquet’s outrageous $468,266 Pension cash bonus.

Local activists and concerned citizens are questioning the ethics of such a substantial bonus, especially when many families struggle to make ends meet. “I’ve not seen anything in Eydie Tricquet’s behavior as Superintendent that has been anything but selfish. I am not surprised to learn this”, Billy Townsend, Investigative Reporter/Blogger Public Enemy Number 1 [Substack Link].

Superintendent Eydie Triquet has been accused of misusing her Political position to benefit Businesses that sell services to Schools. Read more about this on Townsend’s Substack.

After taking the $468,266 Pension cash bonus, Republican Politician Triquet can use her Political position as School Superintendent to shamelessly break her contract promise to resign as a condition of receiving that $468,266 taxpayer-paid bonus and continue not paying 3% of her salary into the Florida Retirement system.

68% of Jefferson County Middle Schools students fail at Basic Reading and 73% fail basic Math . Shockingly, no information is provided for High School Graduation rates nor High School student reading and math scores. Eydie Triquet’s $468,266 taxpayer funded pension bonus would be better spent on providing 33,447 tutor hours to Jefferson County School children.

Politician Eydie Triquet’s pension cash bonus is formally called the “Deferred Retirement Option Program” (DROP). DROP’s original intent: helping the state retain essential and rare skill sets and experience in mission-critical jobs – not for politicians and low-skill jobs. For the list of the names, employers and pension cash bonuses of approximately 28,536 Florida’s Triple Dippers, see [HERE].

Governor Jim DeSantis signed SB 7024 effective July 1, 2023 allowing politicians and bureaucrats to extend pension bonuses by 60% from 5 to 8 years and up to 10 years for School Employees and increasing the pension bonus interest rate from 1.2 to 4% and allowing many to collect pension bonuses earlier[1]. The Triple Dipper Pension Bonus system has created $39 billion in unfunded Florida Retirement obligations, amounting to a $1,725 liability for every man, woman, and child in Florida. [SOURCE]

State and local Politicians are entitled by law to special treatment that allows them to accrue benefits faster and retire with bigger payments than most other workers. The separate class was created and modified over the years by the Florida Legislature, whose 160 members also are covered by pension cash bonuses . Check out our latest investigative Report the Hall of Shame where we profile the most Greedy Florida Politicians and Bureaucrats using their public positions for personal enrichment.

Governor Jim DeSantis signed SB 7024 effective July 1, 2023 allowing politicians and bureaucrats to extend pension bonuses by 60% from 5 to 8 years and up to 10 years for School Employees and increasing the pension bonus interest rate from 1.2 to 4% and allowing many to collect pension bonuses earlier[1]. The Triple Dipper Pension Bonus system has created $39 billion in unfunded Florida Retirement obligations, amounting to a $1,725 liability for every man, woman, and child in Florida. [SOURCE]

Citations:

[GO] https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/florida/districts/jefferson-104381

[GO] https://data.tallahassee.com/school/fsa/jefferson/330000/jefferson/ela/2020-21/

[GO] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/High-School-Tutor-Salary–in-Florida

[GO] https://thecapitolist.com/frs-double-dip-retirement-expansion-will-make-it-harder-for-private-sector-to-compete-with-state/

[GO] https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2011/03/13/florida-pension-benefits-especially-good-for-elected-officials-judges/