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Joint Committee on Public Service hears multiple pension buyback and retirement-relief requests
Summary
The Joint Committee on Public Service took testimony from educators, retired troopers, municipal employees and retirement-system officials on bills to allow purchase of creditable service, to adjust income caps for medically retired officers, and to resolve a dispute over excess-earnings recovery by a regional retirement board.
The Joint Committee on Public Service heard testimony from a range of current and former public employees seeking legislative fixes to pension-credit rules and retirement-income limits, and from a retirement-system official opposing a bill that would reduce a repayment demand.
The matters drew teachers, water‑district workers, retired state troopers and retirement‑system representatives to explain how state rules on “creditable service” buybacks, post‑retirement earnings caps and recovery of alleged excess earnings affect their retirement income.
The panel first heard Representative Paul McMurtry and Kevin Costello on House Bill H2917, which McMurtry said would let a small group of Dedham‑Westwood Water District employees “buy into a pension system at no cost to any of the pension providers.” Kevin Costello, a 40‑year district employee, said that under current rules he has 18 years of qualifying service for a pension and “If I retired today with 18 years of service in the current state, I would…
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