About Kentucky's Coalition
Public employees and retirees have joined together to form the Kentucky Public Pension Coalition. The purpose of the coalition is to defend and preserve retirement security for the workers and retirees of the commonwealth, its city and county governments, and school systems across Kentucky. The coalition represents the interests of more than 350,000 Kentuckians who have worked hard serving the commonwealth and expect to be involved in any conversations regarding their retirement security.
Kentucky Pension Facts:
- Kentucky sponsors 3 major retirement systems that provide benefits for hundreds of thousands of retirees. You can learn more about the performance of these plans in the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s 2017 report Pension Performance and Best Practices Analysis.
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The average pension benefit in Kentucky is $1,727, according to the National Institute on Retirement Security.
- Pensions support local economies and help Kentucky communities thrive. Each $1 paid out in pension benefits supports $1.43 in total economic activity in Kentucky.
Pension Trustee Advisors Finds PFM Analysis Too Optimistic: “Solution” Will Cost More for Worse Benefits.
A review of PFM’s August report on proposed changes to Kentucky’s retirement conducted by the Pension Trustee Advisors (PTA) finds that the proposals will cost more to Kentucky’s taxpayers and its employees while providing lower benefits.
Find a summary of the report here.
In the fight to protect pensions, our best resource is you.
What does your pension mean to you? Why did you choose public service for your career?
Your story is important so our elected officials know the real, human cost to gutting retirement benefits.
Resources:
- Pensionomics
- Putting Pension Cost in Context: Kentucky
- Read the Kentucky Pension Primer to learn more about the economic value of public pensions in Kentucky.
- Kentucky Pension Buck
- 2022 Regular Session Bills
