Susan Lenczewski is grappling with the complex laws governing retirement benefits.

Lawmakers wrestle with ensuring benefits for state retirees

After several years spent patching up the state’s ailing public pensions, lawmakers have another pension fund bailout to weigh, as underfunding threatens long-range stability for 9,000-plus.

A policy debate over the financial assumptions for the state’s public pension funds is brewing at the state Capitol.

The Senate has appointed its five members to serve on the Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement. The commission is a joint House/Senate body with full-time staff that research and craft legislation in one of state government's most complicated fiscal and policy areas.

Teachers’ union is a lone — but loud — voice of opposition to omnibus bill The words being used to describe this year’s omnibus pension bill are more dramatic than those from previous legislative sessions. Legislators and lobbyists are referring to it as “shared sacrifice,” and one GOP state representative even used the term “bailout.”

A joint House and Senate panel approved a controversial omnibus pension bill today in the face of organized opposition from the statewide teachers' union.

State pension investments are down 23 percent since July The state’s pension assets, now worth less than 80 percent of what they need to make ...

This year’s legislative session is widely regarded as a “short” session by lawmakers and public policy activists. The regular session begins Wednesday and lawmakers must ...