There is major legislation that endangers public employee disability retirement recipients. A hearing was held, many people showed up to testify against it and the Bill's Author, Representative Her seemed visibly angry that they dared to challenge the Bill she had authored!
Called a Police and Fire Bill HF 1234 was broadened out to fundamentally change how disability pensions work for all public employees including the PERA Correctional Plan and the General Group.
For a synapsis go to the MNCORA Blog.
The Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement (LCPR) held a hearing on March 20th.
11 people signed up to testify against it including MNCORA. (click on the link to MNCORA to see video of their testimony on that page).
The only Union to show up to testify against this Bill was MNPEA-see video here.
It was very educational to watch affected people who's time to testify was cut to just 90 seconds, often choking back tears, not be asked one question by any of the members of the LCPR then to have the following reply from the Author of the Bill.
Below is the response of Representative Her to the people who testified against the Bill she is the Author of. Note she states "There's not one provision in this Bill that is mine!" Yup, don't blame me. She also admits they didn't talk to any individuals because they spoke to their Unions! Apparently individuals are not stakeholders. Also, when someone is on a disability retirement they must resign their job so they usually are no longer a member of a Union. She had a room overfilled with affected people and 11 speakers of whom she didn't bother to ask a single question of.
You can watch the entire meeting here https://youtu.be/SYYvNRRQhpc
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