Sentences with phrase «how local government pension»

Nigel Giffin QC and Zac Sammour of 11KBW acted for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in a successful challenge to guidance issued by the Secretary of State on how local government pension scheme (LGPS) administering authorities should take account of non-financial factors when drawing up statements of investment strategy.

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Learn how tax reform, state and local pension problems, rising interest rates and new government regulations are affecting the municipal bond market outlook.

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· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Joe Spector, Gannett's Albany bureau chief, characterized Miner's letter as «scathing» in a story about how much money local governments are borrowing to pay for pension costs this year.

In November 2015, the government announced a proposal to block local councils from deciding how to invest their pension funds.

State and local governments around the country are waiting to see how the Illinois Supreme Court will rule on a contested pension reform law.