Don’t hold your breath for $500 million in savings from Tier III pension reform – Quicktake

There’s more egg on the faces of last year’s Tier III pension reform champions than we knew. You may remember that the current year’s budget, finally passed last July, assumed savings of $500 million per year from pension reform. The savings were to be accomplished through implementation of a Tier III benefit level for new hires. We learned last year that it wasn’t feasible to get it done that quickly, which should have been obvious from the start. Now, however, it’s clear that Tier III can’t go live until the 2020 fiscal year, which starts July 1, 2019, at the

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