The Center for Retirement Research at Boston College issued a report on the pandemic’s effect on state and municipal pension systems and listed Connecticut’s State Employee Retirement System as one of the ten worst-funded pension plans in the country. The report projected SERS would see a 4.6 percent decline in ...
Connecticut’s teacher pension debt is officially listed at $16.8 billion, but a new study says that figure might be much higher. According to a new study published by Yankee Institute, Connecticut’s discount rate for its teacher pension system is under-stating its unfunded liabilities by using too high of a discount ...
Since 2012, Connecticut has paid the full annual cost of pensions for the state’s Judges, Family Magistrates and Compensation Commissioners Retirement System, nevertheless the pension debt for judges has increased during that time. Although much smaller than Connecticut’s other retirement systems for teachers and state employees, the JFMCC Retirement System ...
Connecticut’s unfunded pension liabilities continue to grow despite efforts to curb the growing costs to the state. In hard numbers, Connecticut’s pension liability - the money owed to future state workers - has grown from $11.8 billion in 2010 to 20.4 billion in 2016, according to a fact sheet released Thursday by the Office of Fiscal Analysis.
Connecticut’s pension system may be in much worse shape than previously thought according to a new study from the Hoover Institution, a public policy think tank at Stanford University. In 2015, Connecticut reported its pension liability as $30 billion but the Hoover Institute study says that figure was actually $68 billion.