Friday, June 21, 2024

"Reallocate = STEALING!-----Michigan House scheduled to vote June 20 on diverting $670M from teacher debt to other projects

Teacher pension retirement system nearly $30B in debt By Jamie A. Hope
  • A proposal to reallocate $630 million meant to pay down teacher pension debt to other priorities is on the June 20 House agenda.
  • A successful petition to move the bill to the House floor would lead to a vote to reallocate the money that had been scheduled to help pay down $29.9 billion in debt to teachers and others in the Michigan Public Schools Employee Retirement System. 
  • “The state accidentally made school employees the state’s largest creditors by promising pension benefits and not setting aside enough money to pay for them,” he told CapCon...

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