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Today's Poll!Crowell seeks to ‘level’ retirement plans
Thursday, February 23, 2012
If state Sen. Jason Crowell gets his way, all future Missouri government employees served by the Missouri State Employees Retirement System (MOSERS) will have the same retirement benefits.
“When we revisited our pension systems and made reforms during the special session a couple of years ago, one of the issues that crept up for discussion was, ‘Why do we have special retirement systems for different types of state workers?’” the Cape Girardeau Republican reminded his colleagues Wednesday. “It’s not right.”
His bill would treat statewide office holders, lawmakers and judges the same as “state workers who do the front line work of state government each and every day.”
Current law creates four different retirement plans with different benefits packages.
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Silverado_Phil 1 year, 2 months ago
I applaud Sen Crowell. What is good for one state employee should be good for all. If they are concerned about attracting and retaining qualified individuals, then the lawmakers should look at the entire compensation system, from salaries and health benefits to pensions.
gofish 1 year, 2 months ago
This coming from the guy who wants to privitize the retirement system. I don't trust him one bit. The only thing he's interested in is getting public money into the hands of his political backers and that's the wrong motivation. Every Mid-Mo legislator needs to oppose this second effort to hurt state employees.
JCLifer 1 year, 2 months ago
Why should legislators have any retirement? It is a part-time job.
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