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Michigan’s largest debt declines

Gov. Whitmer asks to put less into the pension system

… for public school employee pension debt is down by roughly $5.2 … administration. Lawmakers promised pension benefits to workers in a state-mandated … what was promised. State pension funds are not like Social … up. (They don’t.) Instead, pension fund managers have flexibility … estimates, the costs for pensions are as employees are working, …

How to Control the Pension Debt

The costs of pension liabilities have grown out of control

… as I watch the government pension scandal across the country. Pensions provide retirees with a decent … six states, they say, total pension liabilities have grown beyond … for them. This means that pension debt is growing faster than … matter with this trend. If pension obligations grow a lot from …

Governor Granholm Called to Underfund Pensions 6 Years Before Company Bankruptcy

There is no natural constituency for properly funding pensions

… of pressure to underfund pensions, and the promises that guarantee … employees with defined benefit pension plans, they are required to … bankruptcy, the employee pension plan was terminated and taken over by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. … criticized federal rules governing pensions and called for weakening …

Taking the Pension Task Force to Task

Governments should stop generating new pension debt

… ere is a well-established pension funding principle that was … cover the full costs of the pension benefits earned by their employees that year. This prevents pension debt from growing out of control. … fundamental challenge for financing pension systems. To keep them from … burden on future taxpayers, pension managers need to accurately …

Don’t redirect pension funds

Lawmakers should be wary about lowering pension debt payments

… million out of the state’s pension debt payments and spend it … should be careful. Underfunded pension debts have a long history … part of the state-managed pension and retiree health insurance … pay for their employees’ pensions, and the state pays out pension checks to employees when they …

Why Michigan Pension Reform Matters

Michigan now a national leader on fixing pension problems

… of the 2017 public school pension reform is a transformational … state officials to promise pension benefits to new school employees … participants in the state’s school pension system. It covers 189,761 … from this system. But the pension fund is underfunded. The state … has saved to pay for their pensions and the amount the system’s …

Pension debt payments save taxpayers on the state’s largest creditors

State promised $35 billion more in retirement benefits than what’s been set aside

… are supposed to prefund the pension benefits that employees earn. … sets aside money into the pension system to ensure that they can afford the pensions that school workers earn. … for the total value of all pensions earned by employees in just … increase payments against the pension system’s debt. While good …

How to Control the Pension Debt

The costs of pension liabilities have grown out of control

… as I watch the government pension scandal across the country. Pensions provide retirees with a decent … all but six states, total pension liabilities have grown beyond … pay for them. It means that pension debt grows faster than the … matter with this trend. If pension obligations grow a lot from …

Unions Fight their Members’ Interests on Pensions

Containing and curing pension underfunding benefits retirees, workers and taxpayers

… forgotten when it comes to pensions. In the Lansing State Journal, … the billions in debt these pension systems have incurred. The failure to adequately fund pensions has drained taxpayer resources, … of Michigan’s government pension systems have set aside enough to pay for the pension promises they have made. The …

Schoolchildren, Teachers, Taxpayers Harmed When Pension Managers Assume Too Much

The realities of Michigan's $26.5 billion pension liability

… retirement system to base annual pension contributions on an assumption … means contributions into the pension fund will be insufficient … to pay. Michigan’s school pension system has put taxpayers on … last year. Several state pension officials quoted in a recent … year to adequately fund the pension system. Failing to reach assumed …