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A sweeping plan to cut business taxes, end or restrict tax exemptions for some retirement income and make other significant tax changes cleared a preliminary hurdle Wednesday with Michigan lawmakers.
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A former public official accused of orchestrating a scam that nearly bankrupted a working-class Los Angeles suburb set up a secret pension fund containing $4.5 million to skirt retirement limits for California public employees, according to a newspaper report Monday.
The gap between the promises states have made for public employees' retirement benefits and the money they have set aside grew to at least $1.26 trillion in fiscal year 2009.
Kansas legislators are beginning work next week on the final version of a bill dealing the long-term funding problems of the pension system for teachers and government workers.
Two pension boards in Detroit are suing the state of Michigan over the recently passed emergency financial manager legislation, claiming that the law is unconstitutional.
More than half of retirees responding to a LIMRA survey say changes to Medicare, Social Security programs and increased taxes will affect their ability to afford retirement.
“ASPPA and the National Tax Sheltered Accounts Association (NTSAA) express concern with regard to how the application of proposed new rules 15Ba1-1 through 15Ba1-7 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, will impact retirement plan professionals who work with governmental sponsored retirement plans."