and municipal employees were led to believe they could count on a state pension with a 3 percent compounded COLA benefit to ease the burden of inflation in their retirement years. These dedicated ...

and my income and medical care is part of the retirement package for state employees under the state of Alaska’s retirement system. There are over 70,000 of us in this system, and we are all ...

Today my retirement income is the same as it was 21 years ago. That's because legislators haven't increased state employee retirement payments since 2001, even though they have raised their own ...

I have a few questions that I have not seen answered. The money paid into the Public Employee Retirement System by an employer is instead of Social Security and pay increases. Once it goes to PERS ...

One of Xavier’s co-workers, Brian Fulmer, shares his thoughts on Xavier in this Open Letter: Dear Xavier ... to the Golden ...

As a recently retired employee of the Rock Island County Circuit Clerks office, I had the opportunity to see the office operate at its most efficient levels and after a mass exodus of employee ...

Retired Sarasota County employee Tim Brown wrote this letter to county commissioners: I am a retired Sarasota County employee with 30 years of service with the Sarasota County government ...

Without getting too much into the weeds, the WEP/GPO penalizes millions of retired public employees — police officers, teachers, and firefighters — and strips them of up to 60% of the Social ...

“I am a Federal employee who has recently been furloughed due to a lack of funding of my agency,” a sample letter to a creditor read. “Because of this, my income has been severely cut and I ...

as outlined in Lynn Pike’s recent letter. I retired in 1995. With all my leave added up, I had 32 years’ service. We state employees who have retired paid into the retirement system.

despite dramatic increases in longevity of the American public,” and that the pension plan violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, particularly those relating to actuarial ...