Slideshow: Bristol police want back into the town pension plan
August 14th, 2012 at 12:40 pm by Ted Nesi under Nesi's Notes, On the Main Site
The police union in Bristol is trying to convince town officials to move their officers out of the state-run Municipal Employees Retirement System (MERS) and back into the town’s underfunded locally run pension plan [pdf], which was closed to new hires in 1998.
The union hired an actuary from Milliman to help them make the case – here’s her slideshow:
What do you think?
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“Underfunded” that says it all. Without knowing anything about the police issues, or the pension issues, or the people involved. If the money isn’t there, then the money isn’t there, it just seems like a common sense issue.