Pensions

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All Fact-checks for Pensions

Joe Biden
stated on May 12, 2024 in a fundraising event in Seattle:

"China's in a situation where they have more retired than working."

By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2024

Don Huffines
stated on February 12, 2022 in an ad:

“Under Greg Abbott’s leadership, Texas is putting taxpayer dollars into Chinese companies.”

February 24, 2022

Glenn Youngkin
stated on February 17, 2022 in a rally.:

Virginia is "one of only a handful of states that actually taxes our veterans’ retirement.”

By Warren Fiske • February 23, 2022

Facebook posts
stated on April 13, 2020 in on social media:

Politicians “receive full pay retirement after serving 1 term!”

By Louis Jacobson • May 4, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 in a campaign ad:

Says Nancy Pelosi’s coronavirus bill includes “tax credits for solar and wind energy … retirement plans for community newspaper employees … $300 million for PBS … climate change studies” and more.

By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2020

JB Pritzker
stated on November 19, 2019 in an interview:

Says a study projected that a pension buyout program he expanded would save "billions and billions, potentially $25 billion."

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • November 24, 2019

Lori Lightfoot
stated on August 30, 2019 in an interview:

"We’ve got 600-plus police and fire pensions Downstate that are on the cusp of insolvency because they don’t have the revenues that they need to be able to keep those pensions going."

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • September 8, 2019

Kamala Harris
stated on March 8, 2019 in a tweet:

Says Trump administration is "raiding money" from military service member pensions to pay for the border wall.

By Chris Nichols • March 28, 2019

Bruce Rauner
stated on December 31, 2016 in an op-ed in the (Springfield) State Journal-Register:

The status quo led the General Assembly to reduce pension payments four straight years starting in 2005, costing billions of dollars as the delay in contributions essentially borrowed from pension funds at a very high interest rate.

By Madeleine Doubek • February 17, 2017

Leslie Geissler Munger
stated on September 15, 2016 in a Chicago Sun-Times editorial board debate :

"My opponent… was on both the city of Chicago payroll and the state of Illinois payroll simultaneously, taking full salary, funding her full pension benefits both as a city worker and as a state worker for 10 years."

By Kevin Hoffman • September 22, 2016

Kiplinger.com
stated on October 26, 2015 in press release:

Georgia is one of the 10 most tax-friendly states for retirees.

By Nancy Badertscher • November 13, 2015

stated on September 22, 2015 in a speech:

Every general City of Milwaukee employee "pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not."

September 30, 2015