It will «end extravagant pensions for legislators... the legislative
pension system often pays more than the legislator received while in office.»
Not exact matches
«
Pension funds are
often large participants in the financial
system, as they are in Canada, and so risks in this sector merit careful monitoring,» Wilkins said.
The sustainability of a
pension system is important in that arrangements that are put in place at a particular moment in time are
often counted on to deliver incomes for decades into the future.
Nonetheless,
pension funds are
often large participants in the financial
system, as they are in Canada, and so risks in this sector merit careful monitoring.
Over pay,
pensions, force numbers and, most recently, the
system of local police accountability, the two are
often on opposite sides of the argument.
For example, management and political barriers
often make it complex to build and share expensive, pan-European research facilities, and a patchwork of vastly different
pension and social security
systems can make moving across borders very impractical or financially unattractive.
Compared to a teacher who has worked 30 years in a single state
system, a teacher who has put in the same years but split them between two
systems will
often lose well over one - half of her
pension wealth.
The authors find that charters which opt out of the state
pension system most
often offer teachers defined contribution plans (e.g. a 401 (k) or 403 (b)-RRB-, with employer matches that look a lot like those offered to university employees or private sector professionals.
Using the
pension plan's own interest assumptions (
often 8 percent), in half of states teachers need to stay in a single
system for at least 24 years to simply break even on their contributions plus interest.
Beyond that point, the
pension system quickly begins to punish teachers for staying on the job too long, pushing them out the door at a relatively young age,
often in their mid-fifties, even if they are still effective teachers.
Pensions systems have been
often described as anachronistic and unfit for the current labor force.