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Questions Presented and Answers

Question: What, if any, limitations exist upon the Legislature's ability to reduce the capacity of current employees to earn additional retirement benefits to assure the long term actuarial soundness of the plan?

Answer: The rate and amount of retirement benefits may qualify as a partially vested pension right protected by the contract clause of the constitution. An adverse change to a partially vested pension right is lawful only if it is balanced by a corresponding change of a beneficial nature, a change that is actuarially necessary, or a change that…