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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Government plans - state and local - misc Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines Kansas House and Senate Agree on Changes to State Employees Pension Plan ERISA Fee Benchmarking Rules and Practices Can Be Useful Even to ERISA-Exempt Public Plans Florida Agency Says Legislators Should Consider Increase in Required Employee Contributions to Pension Fund Highly-Paid Boston Public Employees Enjoying Free Commutes in Taxpayer-Funded Cars Houston Sues Firefighters Pension Board to Open Its Books Ohio Senate Passes Public Pension Reform; Ohio House to Act This Summer [Opinion] Ohio Public Retirement Systems Need Overhaul, Not More Tweaks Considerations in Preparing Disclosure in Official Statements on a Government Bond Issuer's Pension Funding Obligations (PDF) New York State Retiree Health Liability Rises to $72 Billion; NYC's Is $84 Billion Is Stock Market Recovery Providing Light at the End of the Tunnel for State and Local Pensions? [Opinion] That Which is Unsustainable Will Go Away: Pensions CalPERS Ignores Governor Brown, Rejects Immediate Application of Lowered Earnings Assumption CalPERS Begins Applying Lower Earnings Assumption for Country's Largest Pension Plan California State Workers Might Face Shorter Work Weeks and Less Pay But No Adverse Effect on Pensions Longtime Chief of Colorado State Pension Plans Resigns, Calls 401(k) Savings Model a 'Failure' At April Meeting, GASB Simplifies Accounting for State Retirement System Liabilities (PDF) 401(k) Option Still a Sore Point in Kansas Public Employees Retirement System Talks Drastic Ohio Public Pension Overhaul Biggest in State History State and Local Pensions Face New Accounting Rules New York City and State Pension Fund Chiefs Sing Praises of DB Plans and Offer Reforms Use of Voter-Approved Initiative to Scale Back Pension Benefits Wins First Court Test in California Providence Pension Reforms Will Save $19 Million Over the Next Year Illinois House Votes to Require Former State Employees to Pay Part of Health Care Premiums for First Time Arizona Public Workers to Be Reimbursed for Increased Pension Contributions Chicago Mayor Proposes Freeze in Pension Cost-of-Living-Adjustments, Wants to Raise Retirement Age Wellness Programs Credited with Keeping Eau Claire City Employee Insurance Costs Down N.Y. State Pension Comptroller Continues Criticism of 401(k) Option for Public Employees California Pension Nightmare Worsens: Thousands More Are Joining '$100,000 Club' Annually Analysis: Public Pension Fixes Face Stout Legal Challenges State and Local Governments Belatedly Put Pension Deficits on Their Books Bill Revising Pension Benefits Goes to Alabama Governor for Signature Louisiana Governor's Pension Reform Proposals Watered Down by Senate Committee Actuaries Recommend a $213 Million Increase in Annual State Pension Payments to CalPERS The Funding of State and Local Pensions: 2011-2015 (PDF) California Counties Deciding to Stop 'Picking Up' Employee Pension Contributions Will San Jose and San Diego Voters Approve Pension Changes Lowering Future Accruals? States Scaling Back Worker Pensions to Save Money Virginia Governor Wants Mandatory Employee Contribution Requirement for Legislators' Pensions DOL Ruling Puts Kibosh on Connecticut's Idea for Pooling Private and Public Employers' Health Risk Kansas Senate Endorses New Cash Balance Plan for State Employees [Guidance Overview] IRS Notice Suggests Changes to Normal Retirement Age Rules for Governmental Plans (PDF) Defined Benefit Fans Tout Cash Balance Pension Plans for Public Employees [Guidance Overview] Minnesota State Agency to Pay Damages Plus Insurance Coverage to Resolve Case of 'Age 55 Cliff' Discriminatory Early Retirement Plans 10 Worst-Off State Pension Funds Louisiana Legislators Decide Switch from DB to 401(k) for State Employees Might Be More Expensive Overall Stockton, California Bankruptcy Would Public Employee Pensions and Bondholders Nationwide [Official Guidance] Text of EBSA Advisory Opinion 2012-01A on Allowing Private Employers Into Connecticut's Group Health Plan California State Officials Launch 'Health Happens in the Workplace' Program Michigan Senate Bill Would Raise Lawmakers' Share of Retiree Health Contribution to 20% of Total Premium Text of U.S. Census Bureau Summary Report on State and Locally Administered Pensions, 2010 (PDF) Wyoming Might Not Be Finished with Changes to Retirement Plan for State Employees Large Connecticut Public Employee Union Rallying Support for State-Run Retirement Plan for Private Companies Switch from DB to DC for New Hampshire Retirement System Taking Shape Despite Opposition New Jersey Politicians Grandfather Own Benefits But Limit Those of New Workers Pensions for Elected State Officials: Target for Reform? [Opinion] Illinois Pension Reform Plan: Taxpayer Costs Must Be Fixed, Not Unlimited [Opinion] How Retirement Benefits Might Sink the States Illinois Legislators Take Aim at Subsidy for Public Employee Retiree Health Insurance San Jose Leaders to Vote on Shrinking New Worker Pensions Ohio Lawmakers Ready to Consider Reforms for Public Employee Retirement Systems Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). You should contact directly the author of any such linked pages for copyright or other information about their contents. Webmaster: Dave Baker (click)   ·   © 2012 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. 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