Tag: pension contribution
The economic turmoil in the early months of the pandemic – a plunging stock market and soaring unemployment – posed a real threat to state and local government pension funds and the workers who rely on them. One group was particularly vulnerable: public-sector workers who aren’t covered by Social Security and lack the backstop of…
The brief’s key findings are: During 2014, public plans adopted new accounting standards for reporting purposes but continued to use the traditional standards for funding purposes. The traditional funded ratio rose from 72 percent in 2013 to 74 percent in 2014 – the first improvement since the financial crisis. Required contributions continued to climb in…
