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Vote NO on 4
NOVEMBER 2000 - Question 4: Tax Cut Just Too Deep! - "If something seems too good to be true, then it probably is." This age old adage has meaning this November, as members evaluate how they will vote on a ballot question which would roll the state’s income tax rate back to 5%.
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New Benefit For Retired Troopers
SEPTEMBER 2000 - Pensions Will Not Drop Below 50% - State police, who retired prior to July 1, 1992 due to an accidental disability or retired on a superannuation pension with 20 years service, will now have their pensions kept at 50% of the current salary of their former grade or position.
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Disabled State Troopers: New Return-To-Work Law
SEPTEMBER 2000 - Back in '96, the pension law on returning disability retirees to their former jobs was expanded to include state police (Chapter 306, Acts of '96). Ever since then, there have been ongoing disputes among disabled troopers, their former department, and employee union over returning them to work.
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Ballot Question Endangers Municipal Insurance
SEPTEMBER 2000 - Tax Cut Could Force Local Cuts - Members, insured under one of the many health insurance plans offered through the state's municipalities, should pay very close attention to the pending ballot initiative that seeks to roll back the state income tax rate to 5%.
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Teachers Can Return To Work And Keep Full Pension
SEPTEMBER 2000 - A little-known feature of the teachers' alternative retirement plan (Ch. 114) which was passed this June allows teachers, who did not retire under the alternative plan, to return to work after 60 days without any earnings or time limit restriction. This means that a teacher who retired in June could come back to work in any school this September and still collect a full pension.
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