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October 17, 2011

No review for special legislative pension

No review for special legislative pension State lawmakers’ special pension is unlikely to be addressed in a study commission’s report next month on funding changes to the Public Employees Retirement System despite Gov. Haley Barbour saying recently that it, too, could be reviewed. Mississippi legislators altered the pension system in 1989, giving themselves a second…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 17, 2011

SALTER – PERS focus of speaker’s race

PERS focus of speaker’s race STARKVILLE — Make no mistake, the fear being generated over the future of Mississippi’s Public Employees Retirement System has a political genesis. But the suggestion that PERS doesn’t need a substantial examination in order to stabilize the program for both present and future retirees is one not borne out by…