Tag: public sector
About one in four state and local government employees – some 6.5 million people – do not participate in the Social Security system. They get their disability insurance, as well as their pensions, from their employers. Whether the coverage is more or less generous than Social Security disability depends on the individual worker’s circumstance and…
The brief’s key findings are: In projecting pension costs, state and local plans assume their workers will live longer than private sector workers. Is this assumption accurate and, if so, why? The analysis confirms that public sector workers – particularly women – have lower mortality rates than their private sector counterparts. The question is whether…
