Posts Tagged ‘Mississippi Public Employees Retirement System’

OPINION: This not a good year to fiddle with PERS, lawmakers decide

by Ted Carter Published: May 20,2012

Tags: Haley Barbour, Mississippi Public Employees Retirement System, PERS

Legislators lived up to expectations that changes to the $20 billion Mississippi Public Employees Retirement System, or PERS, would be too politically radioactive to take on this past session. Gov. Haley Barbour left office in January with an urgent call for lawmakers to reform a system he said was inching toward placing a $1 billion [...] [...]

Changing PERS board’s makeup could spark high-profile 2012 fight

by Ted Carter Published: December 25,2011

Tags: 10-member PERS board, freezing retiree cost of living raises, Mississippi Public Employees Retirement System, PERS, public workers

Altering retirement ages of Mississippi’s public workers and temporally freezing retiree cost of living raises are not the only likely flashpoints ahead in this year’s Legislature. Look for equal volatility over proposals for an increased private-sector presence on the board of trustees of the Mississippi Public Employees Retirement System and increased oversight of the trust [...] [...]

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