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Pensions & Benefits

benefit improvements, disability reform, early retirement incentives, long term perspective, municipal health insurance, opeb reform, pension reform, public/private comparisons

Pioneer Institute report on the pension system

This page contains informal notes on the Pioneer Institute White Paper titled “Public Pensions: Unfair to State Employees, Unfair to Taxpayers”  .

Posted byWill BrownsbergerOctober 1, 2008June 29, 2014Posted inPension Reform

Limits on “double-dipping”

 The Windfall Elimination Provision is designed to prevent higher earning state and local pensioners from being treated as low income earners for the purpose of computing social security benefits.

Posted byWill BrownsbergerOctober 1, 2008June 29, 2014Posted inPublic/Private Comparisons

Pension comparisons

Public employee pension payments are generally dramatically higher than social security payments for similar  earnings histories. 

Posted byWill BrownsbergerOctober 1, 2008June 29, 2014Posted inPublic/Private Comparisons

Public vs. private wages — statistics

It is hard to draw apples-to-apples wage comparisons between the two sectors, because many state and local government jobs have no direct analogy in the private sector.

Posted byWill BrownsbergerOctober 1, 2008June 29, 2014Posted inPublic/Private Comparisons

Employee compensation — which is higher, public or private?

State and local government employees — on average — receive materially higher total compensation than private sector employees.    Of course, public employees include many highly skilled categories of workers.

Posted byWill BrownsbergerOctober 1, 2008June 29, 2014Posted inPublic/Private Comparisons1 Comment on Employee compensation — which is higher, public or private?

Heatlh insurance costs savings, GIC Bill

Comments and testimony regarding the movement of municipal employee health plans into the group insurance commission.

Posted byWill BrownsbergerMarch 23, 2007June 29, 2014Posted inMunicipal Health Insurance1 Comment on Heatlh insurance costs savings, GIC Bill

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