Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear announced on Tuesday the creation of a 23-person panel that will act as a pension funding “task force”. The panel will study the state’s Teachers’ ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last week approved a measure that will increase pension contributions for both employees and the state, in an effort to improve the funding of the state’s ...

Pennsylvania’s pension underfunding stems from a series of policy decisions – a mix of contribution holidays and benefit increases – made in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Pennsylvania’s ...

The Pentagon for months has held off on taking an official position on the proposed military retirement overhaul, which would change the structure of benefit payouts and introduce ...

In a hasty process on Wednesday, the New York City Council rushed to pass a series of changes to the disability pension benefits awarded to relatively new city policeman. From the ...

Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Sarah Taft-Carter on Tuesday approved the settlement which recently ended a long-running lawsuit brought by retirees against the state. The settlement ...

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state acted legally when it deeply slashed its scheduled 2015 pension contribution despite a 2011 law, signed by Christie, which ...

Rahm Emanuel’s new approach to dealing with Chicago’s police and fire pension costs involves pushing city contributions into the future – past Emanuel’s term – and won’t ...

The details of a long-awaited proposed ballot measure, spearheaded by former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, emerged this week. The measure, which could appear on California’s 2016 ballot, ...

The words “retirement crisis” have been appearing in print more and more in recent years. But is the phenomena real, or imagined? In this video, Professor Teresa Ghilarducci ...