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Teachers Urge Law Letting Parenting Teachers Buy Back Service Time
Summary
A large group of public-school teachers and supporters told the Joint Committee on Public Service that House 2769 and Senate 1921 would correct an inequity that penalizes teachers — disproportionately women — who went part time to raise children by allowing them to buy up to five years of retirement credit.
Teachers, school administrators and legislators told the Joint Committee on Public Service that a bill to allow parenting teachers to buy back part-time years would correct a long-standing gender inequity in the Massachusetts Teachers' Retirement System.
Rebecca Mahoney, a teacher at Concord-Carlisle High School, told the committee that House 2769 and Senate 1921 would allow teachers with at least 20 years of service to purchase up to five years of creditable service for periods they worked part time while raising children. “We will be retiring five years behind our husbands,” Mahoney said,…
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