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  2. Illinois pension crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois pension crisis refers to the rising gap between the pension benefits owed to eligible state employees and the amount of funding set aside by the state to make these future pension payments. As of 2020, the size of Illinois' pension obligation is $237B, but the state's pension funds have only $96B available for payouts to retirees.

  3. 'I cannot afford to retire': State retirees will make their ...

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    Those COLAs used to add up to 3% to pensions for state and local employees and teachers at a time when the workers were allowed to retire with a full pension at any age after 28 years of work. 'I ...

  4. A boomer couple who retired with pensions say they're just ...

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    They still pay a modest mortgage on the house they moved into in 2011, and they put a lot of money into remodeling their kitchen, which was built over 70 years ago. They refinanced their 1,400 ...

  5. Pensions crisis - Wikipedia

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    The pensions crisis or pensions timebomb is the predicted difficulty in paying for corporate or government employment retirement pensions in various countries, due to a difference between pension obligations and the resources set aside to fund them. The basic difficulty of the pension problem is that institutions must be sustained over far ...

  6. How to Avoid Paying Taxes on Pensions - AOL

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    You can defer taxes on a lump-sum pension payment by rolling it into a traditional IRA. This allows the funds to grow tax-deferred, and you only pay taxes when you withdraw money from the IRA ...

  7. Pensions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pensions in the United States. Average balances of retirement accounts, for households having such accounts, exceed median net worth across all age groups. For those 65 and over, 11.6% of retirement accounts have balances of at least $1 million, more than twice that of the $407,581 average (shown). Those 65 and over have a median net worth of ...

  8. 'Keep politics out of my pension,' says retired teacher about ...

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    Keeping financial firms out of state business for environmental and other policy reasons is proving to be costly to cities and retirees 'Keep politics out of my pension,' says retired teacher ...

  9. Public employee pension plans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal Employees Retirement System - covers approximately 2.44 million full-time civilian employees (as of Dec 2005). [2]Retired pay for U.S. Armed Forces retirees is, strictly speaking, not a pension but instead is a form of retainer pay. U.S. military retirees do not vest into a retirement system while they are on active duty; eligibility for non-disability retired pay is solely based upon ...