pensions

Medicaid has come to dominate headlines in the first week of the legislative session, dividing Florida’s Republican lawmakers and sparking doubts that an…

More than a hundred protesters descended on the seat of state government. Some of them dressed as characters from the original Wizard of Oz movie to…

A proposal to rate the financial health of public pension plans the same way private companies’ are rated, is meeting strong opposition from public…

After lawmakers passed a measure in 2011 that would require state employees to contribute three percent of their salary to their retirement, a number of…

Florida’s city pension plans are overburdened and underfunded. That’s according to the latest report from the non-partisan LeRoy Collins Institute. The…

Florida lawmakers have been whittling away at public employee pensions over the past few years but some say enough is enough. Employees are now required…

A bill meant to lower the retirement age of special risk employees back to what it was a year ago is more or less dead in the Florida Legislature. Sascha…

A measure that would allow police officers, firefighters, and other special-risk employees to retire earlier is advancing in the House. But, as Sascha…