(Bloomberg) -- Governor Chris Christie contributed18.6 percent of what New Jersey’s pension fund needed infiscal 2014, lowest among U.S. states, according to Moody’sInvestors Service.

The governor, a 53-year-old Republican seeking the presidentialnomination, skipped billions of dollars in payments for 2014 and2015, and reduced the 2016 planned contribution, saying the statedidn’t have the money.

A state Supreme Court ruling in June allowed Christie to bypasshis own 2011 law requiring a series of extra payments to bring thefund, with 800,000 beneficiaries, closer to actuarial demands.

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