Nearly 300 retired city employees in a Democrat-led city are reportedly still waiting to receive their pension payments, months after accepting early retirement packages as part of a cost-cutting initiative.

At a city council meeting Wednesday, Houston Mayor John Whitmire pushed back against criticism that the Houston Municipal Employees Pension System (HMEPS) failed to issue payments, stressing he has no authority over the fund, according to local news outlet KHOU 11 News .

“I have no control over the pension fund,” Whitmire said. “We’ve explained that repeatedly, provided the data to our daily paper, but that’s not what they want to write, and neither does one of my critics want to show the facts.”

More than 1,000 city employees accepted early retirement packages in May to help tri

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