AG: Retirees could serve at Capitol without pension hit
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s office says retired state employees may serve in the Legislature while continuing to receive their government pension, if certain conditions are met.
Public agencies will have to spend $100 million more on worker pensions
Public agencies in Mississippi will have to contribute another $100 million toward worker pensions beginning July 1, 2019, after a vote by the state Public Employees Retirement System’s board.
More Americans expect to work until 70; there are benefits
When it comes to retirement, later may be better.
Spending-cut efforts hit roadblocks
The budget gurus in Congress have failed for years to find a grand bargain to reduce the government’s long-term debt, so this year they decided to go small.
House approves military pension bill
The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to restore full cost of living increases to pension benefits for younger military retirees, responding eagerly to election-year pressure from veterans groups.
GOP weighs undoing veterans pension cuts
House Republican leaders Monday unveiled a plan to reverse a recently passed cut to military pensions as the price for increasing the government’s borrowing cap, but it received a rocky reception from skeptical conservatives.
Military pension cuts now unsure; changes likely
The Pentagon’s top civilian says it’s time to tame burgeoning military personnel costs, but he’s facing a test of wills with the nation’s powerful veterans groups, which want no cut in their benefits.
Pension results in Miss. mixed based on accounting
JACKSON — Mississippi’s public employee pension fund saw its financial position improve last year. Or it didn’t. It’s all in the accounting. And depending on
Pension funds reconsider investments in gun makers
From California to New York, teacher and public-worker retirement funds are reconsidering their investments in gun makers and confronting an uncomfortable fact: Their pensions have supported the manufacture of deadly weapons, in some cases the same type of gun used in the Connecticut school shooting.