Mississippi pension fund heads for final ‘Jeopardy’
We’ll take pension reform for a thousand.
Make no mistake, Mississippi is playing “Jeopardy” with its public employee retirement fund.
Failing to take steps toward reform might prove disastrous for retirees who depend on their benefits from the Public Employees’ Retirement System and the state’s budget. Mississippi, it’s becoming apparent, is making promises about its pension fund it surely can’t keep, according to a new study by the Competitive Enterprise Institute,
Let’s make it a true “Double Jeopardy, Alex.”
The state’s unfunded liability with PERS as a percentage of the state’s gross domestic product was third worst behind New Mexico and Illinois, according to the study by Robert Sarvis. The state’s unfunded liability is more than $15 billion, the state’s most recent report — in 2013 — says.
That’s an increase of more than 50 percent since 2007, when the state’s unfunded liability was more than $7 billion.
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