Pensions and Retiree Health Benefits
Pew's work on state pensions and retiree health benefits
- States' Fiscal Health
- Contact Brian Keegan 202.540.6677
- June 18, 2012
Pension and retiree health care costs are rising sharply in the states, adding to budget pressures and threatening to crowd out resources for other priorities like education, health care and infrastructure.
- Date:
- June 18, 2012
- Contact:
- Brian Keegan | 202.540.6677
- Project:
- States' Fiscal Health
- Issues:
- Economy, Retirement
- Report:
- A Widening Gap in Cities, The Widening Gap Update, The Widening Gap, The Trillion Dollar Gap, Promises with a Price
Resources and News
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January 16, 2013
A Widening Gap in Cities
A number of the nation’s key cities face unpaid bills for the retirement benefits they have promised their employees. This report examines pension and retiree health care funding in 61 cities—the most populous one in each state plus all others with populations over 500,000—and looks at options for reform.
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- Issue Brief
- States' Fiscal Health
Kentucky's Pension Challenges
Pension problems, such as those in Kentucky, are rooted in simple math, rather than in political ideology. more
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June 18, 2012
The Widening Gap Update
The gap between the promises states have made for public employees’ retirement benefits and the money they have set aside to pay these bills was at least $1.38 trillion in fiscal year 2010, according to Pew's latest comprehensive analysis on pension and retiree health care funding. more
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April 25, 2011
The Widening Gap
The gap between the promises states have made for public employees’ retirement benefits and the money set aside to pay for them grew to at least $1.26 trillion in fiscal year 2009—a 26 percent increase in one year—according to a Pew report.
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- Report
- States' Fiscal Health
The Trillion Dollar Gap
States that ignored public sector retirement challenges now face growing bill coming due—bills that may have significant consequences for taxpayers. This report from the Pew Center on the States examined the roots of the problem and how the economic crisis is spurring states into action.
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