State Rep. Dawnna Dukes announced her retirement in September, but doesn’t plan to make it official until Tuesday. That would make her annual pension payout $3,220 bigger.
Employee Retirement System
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Economy
State Workers Want Pensions to Catch Up
Thousands of retired Texas state workers are essentially stuck in 2001. Though health care, food and pretty much everything else keep getting more expensive, their monthly pension checks haven’t budged.
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Politics
Analysis: A Judicious Swipe at Pensions for State Lawmakers
Between now and the next legislative session, Texas lawmakers will be tinkering with an obscure formula that links their own state pensions to the salaries of state judges.
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State Government
Senate Approves State Employee Pension Funding Plan
The Texas Senate on Friday voted to beef up the state’s underfunded retirement system for state employees by adding about $440 million to the program, a plan that has received mixed reviews from state employee advocacy groups.
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Politics
House Takes Step to Patch Pension Fund Hole
State workers would pay more into their retirement system but get pay raises to offset the cost under legislation that earned preliminary House approval Monday.
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Politics
House Plan Would Plug Hole in Pension Fund
Texas House leaders unveiled a plan Tuesday to shore up the state’s chronically underfunded retirement system for employees that requires workers to pay more into the system, but gives them a pay raise to offset the cost.
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Bidness As Usual
Judicial Pay Raises Bring a Little Something Extra
Lawmakers are talking seriously about a 21.5 percent pay raise for state district judges, which would increase the pensions of those same lawmakers by that same amount.
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Politics
Deciphering a Short Turn at the Governor’s Office
Political insiders rarely take things at face value, so it’s not surprising that they are scratching their collective heads over Ann Bishop’s sudden hiring and equally sudden departure from the office of Gov. Rick Perry.
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Former Rick Perry Aide Got $162,500 Bonus
Days before she became Gov. Rick Perry’s chief of staff, Ann Bishop — already the highest-paid executive officer at a state agency — received a $162,500 bonus from the Employees Retirement System, records show.
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Bidness As Usual
Pension Privacy Gets Attention of Legislators
Texas’ public pension systems — including the one state lawmakers pay into — have an airtight exemption from the landmark 1973 sunshine law that was designed to let taxpayers known how public money is being spent. But some lawmakers want to change that.
