Tag: unfunded liability
States and localities are paying less for benefits than in the past. In a recent editorial, The Wall Street Journal reports on state and local pension liabilities as a percentage of state GDP and concludes that politicians have made excessive pension promises. In fact, pension costs are going up, but the question is whether t…
The brief’s key findings are: Connecticut’s State Employees Retirement System faces a large unfunded liability, despite recent efforts by the State to fund. A significant source of the liability is the “legacy debt” built up before the State began pre-funding its pensions in the 1970s. More recently, inadequate contributions, low investment returns (since 2000), and early…
