State Comptroller Daniel Hynes has said he would not include a two-point-eight percent cost-of-living increase in paychecks for more than one-thousand Illinois judges' because the money has not been appropriated.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich vetoed pay raises for the state's constitutional officers, judges and lawmakers as part of $22 million in state budget cuts.
The court order contends the governor's veto removed funding for the judicial salary increases but not the legal obligations to pay it.
A spokesman with Hynes office says the matter is under review.
