Comptroller praises independent pension review as Democratic and Republican challengers attack fund management ahead of 2026 election.

(AP) – CHARLESTON, W.Va.: Bigger and bigger pension costs were draining the city’s general fund until a new law helped the city to set aside more assets for future benefits. The city also created a ...

​The fund’s ill-fated ventures are examples of an increasingly popular strategy: trying to keep costs down by investing in individual projects.

(AP) – Atlanta: The city faces an unfunded pension liability of $1.5 billion at last estimate. In 2011, the city announced changes that increased worker contributions to their retirement accounts and, ...

Pension funds held by Illinois Quad-Cities governments for police and firefighters fell by $20.5 million, to $135.3 million, from 2007 to 2009, highlighting a politically charged topic that is gaining ...

Jun. 14—Six months ago, plugged-in Chicago politico Forrest Claypool sounded the alarm about rising pensions debts and called for dramatic action to bring them under control. A longtime Democratic ...

With pension reform possibly within reach, there’s a Goldilocks problem for the state lawmakers setting plans to tackle Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation pension problem. Some fixes would be too small; ...

Gov. Phil Murphy's administration has put more than $42 billion into state pensions since he took office in 2018, putting the funds on a path to recovery. (Hal Brown for New Jersey Monitor) Pensions ...

High volumes of customer calls, backlogs and complex requests blamed for shaky start to life on civil service pension scheme ...

WILDWOOD- Wildwood and North Wildwood, along with other state municipalities, wrongly allowed independent contractors to remain on pension rolls, according to the State Comptroller’s office. On ...

LINCOLN — Omaha’s pension problems — which a state senator said had become “ugly” — got an airing Wednesday before a panel of state lawmakers concerned that the state might have to step in to help ...