State pension gap grows, survey saysHarrison Sheppard, Sacramento Bureau
Despite opposition, governments are forcing through changes to make pension systems sustainable Save Monday, 23 September, 2024 Special ReportFTfm: Pensions Plotting a path to pension parity The gender gap in retirement savings is a problem for women around the world Save Friday, 13 September,...
There’s obviously a cost to any top-up – roughly £824 per year if you do it this year. That’s obviously a sizeable amount. But for each year you add now, you’ll break even if you claim the State Pension for at least three years. So claim it for four years and you’ll ...
I don’t have a pension. Well, I do have a very small retirement fund, but not an actual pension. I only have some savings that I started saving in the last couple of years out of my self-employed earnings. I’m continuing this year to save too and save around 10% of my income ...
But what’s especially noteworthy is that the gap between the U.S. and E.U. keeps widening even though convergence theory says poorer nations should grow faster than richer nations. Given the E.U.’s dismal performance over the past 15 years, it seems like the “anti-convergence” is ...
In Oklahoma, Connecticut, Hawaii Maryland and New Jersey debt and pension costs consumer 20 cents or more of all state spending. States that have fallen behind on their pension obligations have been underfunding their pensions for years. Many have also used outdated investment forecasts that ...
A pension plan’s benefit obligations are something like a glacier. They start as a bare mountainside, but a little snow accumulates and freezes, then more ice builds up over many years in small layers. In the same way, each employee accrues a little more retirement benefit each year. Ther...
to last cycle: Harris has significantly expanded on Biden's donor numbers, while Trump actually slightly lags his own numbers from four years ago. Today, the Biden-turned-Harris campaign has more than 2.4 times the number of donors as the Trump campaign — a...
the role and dynamics of zakat during crises from the perspective of zakat contributors or the population at large has not been explored. We fill this gap below, documenting state actions, citizen perceptions, and potential distributional impacts of zakat in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic....
•OH-Gov: Lehman Brothers keeps turning into a bigger and bigger albatross around John Kasich’s neck. It turns out that Kasich, while he was head of Lehman’s Columbus office in 2002, tried to convince two state pension funds (OPFPF and OPERS) to invest with the now-imploded investm...