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PERA deserves an earful on its listening tour 0
- May 17, 2017
Members and non-members alike should be prepared to ask PERA’s board some tough questions about their credibility.
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Colorado’s PERA shortchanging state workers and taxpayers 0
- June 23, 2014
Problems with Colorado’s public employee pension system are making it hard for our state government to attract some of the best employees. That’s the persuasive finding of a new study by the Urban Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington. An employer’s retirement plan is part of an overall compensation package designed to entice and
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Fairness in retirement age a necessary public pension reform 0
- June 3, 2014
Imagine that you and your neighbor are friends and professional peers. You belong to the same professional organizations. You each have worked for your respective employers for a long time as retirement approaches. But one of you works for a private employer, the other for the State of Colorado. The state employee can retire with
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The Colorado Government Pension System Introduction and Basic Organization 0
- April 22, 2013
Colorado’s Public Employee Retirement Association (PERA) is the State’s largest pension plan, with more than 483,000 members as of 2011. Government contributions exceeded $1 billion in FY2011.
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Unfunded Liabilities in PERA’s Health Plan Accumulate 0
- May 8, 2012
by Penn Pfiffner and Barry Poulson This legislative session Colorado HB1250 was introduced to begin addressing an unfunded billion-dollar liability in the Public Employee Retirement Association’s (PERA) retiree health care benefit program. Its own sponsor then killed the bill after it came under a fire storm of hysteria-tinged and false criticisms, fueled by one-sided media
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