After weighing the advantages, I shifted about $116000 from a tax-deferred account to buy five extra years of service credit toward retirement. ...

For years Connecticut state government has been funding itself by raiding the state employee pension fund, an abuse that worsened by $315 million in the last two years as the Rell administration and General Assembly could not bring themselves to cut spending to match the decline in tax revenue . As a result the pension fund has only about half the assets considered necessary to fund its long ...

Scottsdale is paying interest on a $3 million balance owed to the Arizona State Retirement System for its 2009 buyout program.

Vermont committee looks to hedge funds to restore public pension funds. ... - By Peter Hirschfeld Vermont Press Bureau

When City Councilman Anthony Uremovic made a surprise announcement about his retirement last month, he explained that he was spending more time out of town on research and on a consulting business. He didn't mention that retiring right away also meant he could get a better pension payout.

Plainfield, Lockport and most towns in the area have pension programs for mayors and other elected board members through the Illinois Municipal Retirement ...

Parliament begins to debate his proposed rise in the retirement age on Tuesday, with unions and the opposition parties all opposed. ...

AP AuburnPub.com | Posted: Saturday, September 4, 2010 1:35 pm | (0) Comments ALBANY -- The office that oversees retirement benefits for state workers in ...

Rizzo is set to receive a pension of about $600000 a year, which would make him the highest-paid pensioner in the California Public Employees' Retirement ...

Yet neither Ryan nor Hensaerling have proposed cutting Congressional retirement benefits - nor should they. Sound pension plans like theirs were once ...

Registered Retirement Pension Plan and 401K Plan Maturity Options: As mentioned in previous articles that the government represents only about 30% of our income in retirement. Withdrawal of the company's pension offer of 30%, ...

The halcyon days of golden-plated final salary pension schemes for all are long gone, and with annuity rates at record lows and life expectancy increasing every year, planning for retirement has never been more important. ...

I was tweaking the numbers in my signature the other day and I got to thinking about how to evaluate the cash equivalent of my company pension (defined-benefit, COLA, 1.2% of monthly payout as.

UK consumers don't have to take their State Pension when they reach retirement age. Those that choose to defer payments could increase their income or get a lump sum.

A number of options including a pension lump sum and income drawdown are available with a pension making retirement planning increasingly important.