William M. Bulger, a former president of the University of Massachusetts system, is entitled to more than half of a controversial $29,000 increase he had sought in his annual pension, the state’s highest court has decided. Mr. Bulger resigned under pressure from Gov. Mitt Romney, among other critics, in 2003. In a unanimous ruling last week, reported by The Boston Globe, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court said that Mr. Bulger had correctly included a housing allowance as income when he applied for a pension, but that he could not include a $19,000 annuity he had received as part of his compensation at UMass. Together, the housing allowance and annuity would have raised his pension from about $179,000 to about $208,000 a year, according to the Globe. Now Mr. Bulger will get nearly 60 percent of that increase, for a jump of $17,000 a year, according to the state’s treasurer, Timothy P. Cahill, who had opposed the larger pension.