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Mass Retirees urges modest increases to survivor allowance and correction of option B/C inequities
5572168 · June 25, 2025
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Summary
Witnesses from Mass Retirees asked the Joint Committee on Public Service to advance bills raising a minimum survivor allowance and to correct long-standing inequities for retirees who elected certain survivor options before 2004.
Nancy McGovern of the Mass Retirees Association asked the committee to support legislation to increase the minimum survivor allowance and to correct actuarial inequities for earlier retirees.
McGovern said Senate 1867 would “increase the minimum option d survivor allowance from 6,000 to 9,000 annually, $750 per month for surviving spouses of public…
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