HB 3657 boosts Tier 2 pensions – a benefit system designed to control the growth of pensions for government workers hired since 2010 – by changing the method used to calculate the final average salary for Chicago police. Another change it introduces for both Chicago police and firefighters is to the salary limit beyond which no higher pension can be earned.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.