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Congressional pension is a pension made available to members of the United States Congress. As of 2019, members who participated in the congressional pension system are vested after five years of service. A pension is available to members 62 years of age with 5 years of service; 50 years or older with 20 years of service; or 25 years of service ...
Since 2001, U.S. statewide pension funds have experienced significant funding challenges due to the recessions of 2001-2002 and 2008-2009. Prior to the Dot-Com Crash, statewide pension funds were over 95.6% funded in the aggregate. In 2002, the funded ratio had declined to 82.1%.
At the outset of the Civil War the General Law pension system was established by congress for both volunteer and conscripted soldiers fighting in the Union Army. [4] Payouts derived from this plan were based on degree of injury and subject to review by government boards. By 1890, general old-age pensions were incorporated for Union veterans. [5]
Proposition 162, also known as the "California Pension Protection Act of 1992," gave the PERS board "the sole and exclusive fiduciary responsibility over the assets of" PERS. [17] [21] To avoid confusion with public employees' retirement systems in other states, the organization's name was changed to "CalPERS" in 1992. [16]
Before 1958, the U.S. federal government provided no pension or other retirement benefits to former United States presidents. Andrew Carnegie offered to endow a US$25,000 (equal to $789,310 today) annual pension for former chief executives in 1912, but congressmen questioned the propriety of such a private pension.
According to California's Department of Finance, the state's 2017-2018 enacted state budget includes over $180 billion in state funds. [27] As can be seen below, Table 1 gives an overview of California's 2017-2018 enacted state budget. As the table suggests, health care and K12 education represent California's largest expenditures of state funds.
In 1789, the federal government started paying for some pensions as well. [2] In 1818, the federal government under President James Madison passed a large pension bill for veterans of the Revolutionary War at his urging. The bill didn't require applicants to provide evidence of poverty or disability to be granted benefits, unlike previous programs.
The article on Congressional compensation was initially ratified by seven states through 1792 (including Kentucky), but was not ratified by another state for eighty years. The Ohio General Assembly ratified it on May 6, 1873, in protest of an unpopular Congressional pay raise . [ 13 ]