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Public safety and health workers press committee for COVID-era retirement credit

5572168 · June 25, 2025
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Summary

Police, firefighters, state troopers and other public safety witnesses urged the committee to advance a study and a bill providing retirement credit for employees who worked in person during the COVID-19 state of emergency.

Representatives of law enforcement, fire service and public safety unions asked the Joint Committee on Public Service to report favorably on bills creating a study and a retirement credit for essential workers who served in-person during the COVID-19 state of emergency.

Michael Pereira of the Massachusetts Coalition of Police said House Bill 3003 would create “a commission to study the feasibility of awarding a retirement credit to public employees who…

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