[brief] See Chiappini v. Board of Trustees of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, 2011 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2062 (App. Div. 2011) (where [...], a teacher who had not worked for a number of months for medical reasons before his retirement, had inadvertently failed to observe the required 30 day waiting period between his retirement and starting a part-time teaching position, the Board’s decision to require [...] to reimburse the DPB $32,479.95 in pension benefits previously paid to him and to have his life insurance benefit reduced from $12,875.00 to $1,000.00 was considered “excessive” and the Court restored [...] to “full pension status”); Pa114 to Pa120; Geller v. Department of the Treasury, 53 N.J. 591 (1969) (the Court restored the full pension benefits of a retired public school teacher by allowing her to purchase “6.4 years prior service credit” at a reduced cost solely based on the equities of the case); Indursky v. Board of Trustees of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, 137 N.J. Super. 335 (App. Div. 1975) (the Court reversed the decision of the Board to demand that [...], an attorney who had been declared totally disabled, reimburse $5,302.32 in pension benefits since “every equity” in the case favored [...]); In re Frank, 2007 WL 2005083 (App. Div. 2007) (the Court reversed the decision of the Board requiring that [...], a retired public school custodian who had been declared totally disabled, reimburse $49,209.76 in retirement benefits due to her inadvertent violation of the regulations for part-time work in retirement on the ground that the equities of the case estopped the Board from the collection of benefits paid to [...] in error); Fasolo v. Board of Trustees of Division of Pensions of New Jersey Treasury, 190 N.J. Super. 573 (App.  Div. 1983) (where PERS improperly withheld the retirement benefits of [...], an attorney who had worked as counsel for various public entities, the Court held that the equities in the case warranted that interest should be assessed on the monies improperly withheld by PERS that PERS was ordered to pay [...]); Roselle v. Board of Trustees of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, 2022 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 933 (Admin. Law 2022) ([...], a librarian at a public library, was permitted under N.J.S.A. 43:15A-54 to enroll in PERS retroactively to her date of hire 12 years earlier since her failure to enroll in PERS was due to the mistake of the municipality and the equitable considerations favored [...]); Hughes v. Board of Trustees of the Public Employees’ Retirement System, 2011 N.J. AGEN LEXIS 195 (Admin. Law 2011) (where the DPB demanded that [...], a 69 year-old disabled maintenance worker, pay $84,553.78 in penalties due to a violation of the maximum salary permitted for a disability retiree, OAL reduced the “extraordinary hardship” of the penalties to be paid by [...] from $84,553.78 to $2,019.66 based solely on the equities in the case).  e)  Minimal cost to purchase service credits in this case $614.72 will not undermine the financial integrity of the PERS fund.  The relief requested in this appeal includes the purchase of two months of service credit necessary to have the 10 years of service time needed for the life insurance benefit ($9,952.12) that was taken away from me by the DPB in July of 2022.