Promises with a Price
Public Sector Retirement Benefits
- States' Fiscal Health
- Contact Brian Keegan 202.540.6677
- December 17, 2007
Quick Summary
Pew's first 50-state analysis of the long-term costs of public sector retirement benefits found that most states had saved enough to cover about 85 percent of their long-term pension costs, but only three percent of the funds needed for promised retiree health care and other non-pension benefits.Report Assets
- Date:
- December 17, 2007
- Contacts:
- Brian Keegan | 202.540.6677
- Project:
- States' Fiscal Health
- Issues:
- Retiree Health Care, Retiree Health Care Costs, Pensions
- State:
- California
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