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Arizona lawmakers shouldn’t be making investment decisions
We cannot let politics jeopardize the financial security of current and future retirees. We must keep politics out of our pensions and retirement options and stay focused on savings, investment solutions, maximizing returns, and increasing investment choices for all Americans.
Pass Senate bills to end probate system actions that cause abuse, abandonment, exploitation
Every citizen should be concerned that our rights are so easily eliminated and all that we hold dear and planned for, wiped away. It is incumbent on the Arizona Legislature to pass and Gov. Katie Hobbs to sign into law, SB1291 and SB1038.
Court rulings show fate of state pensions likely in voters’ hands
Voters may be tasked with ultimately deciding the fate of state pensions after the Arizona Supreme Court ruled for a second time that provisions of a 2011 reform law passed by the Legislature are unconstitutional.
Arizona Supreme Court to consider judicial pension changes
The Arizona Supreme Court is scheduled to rule Thursday on a pocketbook issue for judges in the state court system.
Voters approve changes to public safety pensions
Arizona’s dangerously underfunded public safety pension system will undergo a substantial reform after voters approved Proposition 124 in Tuesday’s special election.
House reportedly working on competing pension reform measure
A few hours before a landmark overhaul of the state’s pension system for police officers and fire fighters was set to be publicly unveiled by a senator who negotiated the legislation with union and city officials over the past year, some stakeholders were summoned to a meeting in the House, where multiple sources said competing legislation might be offered.
Petersen seeks to prevent lavish payouts to errant public officials
A Gilbert Republican lawmaker is crafting legislation he says will crack down on public officials who illegally waste money and then walk away with lucrative pensions.
Lawmakers work on public safety pension system overhaul plan
A plan to overhaul the state's woefully underfunded pension plan for public safety workers is nearing completion after months of meetings between lawmakers, pension officials, firefighter and police unions and cities, towns and other public agencies that pay into the system.
Canadian hired to lead pension system can’t get work visa
The state’s pension system for police officers, firefighters, judges and politicians has to start over to find a new executive director after the Canadian hired to lead the organization wasn’t able to get a work visa.
First Amendment protections at issue in lawsuits involving pension system
The courts are busy sorting out an alleged scandal involving the state’s pension system for police and firefighters.
Phoenix city manager asked to end pension spiking
Although the city manager is being asked to end a policy that allows pension "spiking" by Phoenix police officers and firefighters, no changes are imminent because the city must honor its labor-contract obligations until next fiscal year.
Judges’ pension case linked to meaning of the word ‘benefit’
Justices on the Arizona Supreme Court on June 4 wanted a clear definition of a benefit to help them decide whether the Legislature’s 2011 cut in annual cost-of living-increases for state retirees is constitutional.
