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VSEA presses for pension changes: expand military service credit and new retirement plan for corrections and mental-health frontline workers
Summary
The Vermont State Employees Association asked the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee to fund an actuarial study and consider a new retirement plan that would allow certain corrections and mental-health workers to retire at 55 after 20 years; the union also said military service credit law has not been updated since Vietnam.
Steve Howard, executive director of the Vermont State Employees Association, asked the Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee to consider two pension changes aimed at retaining corrections and mental-health frontline workers and recognizing modern military service.
Howard said the union supports funding an actuarial study — he estimated about $25,000 — to analyze the fiscal impact of expanding state service credit for military service in conflicts after the Vietnam era. "We haven't updated the statute…
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