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By Trinda Lundholm on
3/11/2010 4:53 PM
Largely due to furloughs, pay cuts last year of almost $800 million nearly equaled the $900 million increase in state worker pay from 2007 to 2008. Employees at some departments – Developmental Services, the Department of Rehabilitation, and Health Services, to name a few – were hit with a double-whammy: less staff, less pay.
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By Trinda Lundholm on
3/11/2010 1:12 PM
Sacramento Bee, March 11
The Legislature on Monday sent a bill to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger that would exempt an estimated 80,000 "special fund" department state workers from furloughs with a lopsided combined vote of 97-14.
(There's no legal definition for "special fund," but in this case, the bill furlough-proofs jobs paid 95 percent or more with fees, federal money or other sources outside the state's perpetually cash-poor general fund.)
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By Trinda Lundholm on
3/10/2010 3:10 PM
Members of the CalPERS Long-Term Care Program will soon receive letters in the mail explaining that there are options they can choose in lieu of increased premium hikes that are scheduled to go into effect July 1.
The letters – slated to begin arriving in mailboxes March 15– will outline options for members ranging from maintaining their plan or opting to reduce benefits and benefit periods for savings. The options are customized based on the member’s current plan and when they first enrolled into the program. The options may include:
- Accepting the full rate increase
- Decreasing daily benefit levels
- Reducing the benefit period to six years
- Reducing the benefit period to three years
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By Trinda Lundholm on
3/8/2010 10:45 AM
The Obama administration has filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit against a state plan to cut or reduce subsidized in-home care to 130,000 seniors and disabled people in California.
Attorneys with the U.S. Justice Department's civil rights division filed the brief Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth District.
An injunction in a lower federal court stopped the state with going forward with its plan pending the outcome of a suit filed by Disabled Rights California, the National Senior Citizens Law Center and others.
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By Trinda Lundholm on
3/5/2010 11:37 AM
SACRAMENTO – With 80 initiative proposals currently circulating throughout California, Secretary of State Debra Bowen reminded voters March 5 of their key rights and responsibilities when deciding whether to sign petitions.
Voters may call the Secretary of State’s Voter Hotline at (800) 345-VOTE to ask election-related questions, or to report potential election fraud or voter intimidation.
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By Trinda Lundholm on
3/4/2010 10:03 AM
SACRAMENTO BEE March 4
OAKLAND - A day after announcing his intention to run for governor, Attorney General Jerry Brown said in an interview Wednesday that he would look at reforming public employee pension programs if elected while opposing any move to privatize them.
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By Trinda Lundholm on
3/3/2010 3:12 PM
Bruised by heavy losses and wary of the economic road ahead, California's two big public pension funds are considering reducing their official forecasts of future investment results.
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By Trinda Lundholm on
3/2/2010 4:21 PM
Albert “Bert” Clark, who served as both a board member and Chapter 16 president for CSEA Retirees, Inc., passed away in Folsom at the age of 90 Feb. 13.
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By Trinda Lundholm on
3/2/2010 4:17 PM
The so-called California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility has suspended its efforts to place two measures on the November ballot to reduce the pension and health benefits for new public employee hires.
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By Trinda Lundholm on
3/2/2010 3:44 PM
Don LaPlante, the husband of former CSEA Retirees, Inc. President Barbara LaPlante, passed away Feb. 27. He was 88.
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By Trinda Lundholm on
2/26/2010 4:19 PM
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By Trinda Lundholm on
2/24/2010 2:30 PM
Despite their full-throated support for cutting public employee pension costs, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the leading GOP candidate to replace him, Meg Whitman, have backed away from supporting a ballot measure that would do just that.
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By Trinda Lundholm on
2/24/2010 1:01 PM
The California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility is suspending for now its efforts to obtain signatures to qualify its New Employees Benefits Reform Initiative for the November, 2010 ballot, according to a press release issued Feb. 24.
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By Trinda Lundholm on
2/22/2010 12:45 PM
Destroying something worthwhile, such as a pension system, is best achieved by misdirection, claiming that doing so is necessary to help solve a financial crisis or other problem. Calling it "reform" rather than destruction and distorting the facts or being untruthful are the other ingredients in sowing the poisonous seeds to weaken, then kill a healthy, worthwhile program that provides reasonable benefits to retired career public servants.
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By Trinda Lundholm on
2/18/2010 2:14 PM
California has plenty of company when it comes to not being able to pay its growing public pension costs, a Washington think tank says in a report to be released Thursday.
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Reasons to join CSEA Retirees, Inc.
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Click the image to watch a video explaining the many reasons
why state retirees and future state retirees should join CSEA Retirees,
Inc. To hear sound, you must have speakers connected to your
computer. After viewing the video, help protect your pension and health care by joining CSEA Retirees, Inc. Call (888) 808-7197 or join CSEA Retirees, Inc. by filling out an application. Print out this application, fill it out and send it to:
CSEA Retirees, Inc. 1108 O St. Sacramento, CA 95814
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CSEA Retirees, Inc. is the largest, most experienced organization exclusively representing state government retirees. With 24 chapters statewide, we help protect the health care and pension benefits of nearly 30,000 members.
CSEA Retirees, Inc. is the largest, most experienced organization exclusively representing state government retirees. With 24 chapters statewide, we help protect the health care and pension benefits of nearly 30,000 members.
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CSEA Retirees PAC Brochure
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Do your part to protect our pensions, health care and benefits – Join the new political action committee for CSEA Retirees, Inc. today!
Click here to see the CSEA Retirees, Inc. PAC brochure and application. Print it out, fill it out and mail it to CSEA Retirees, Inc., 1108 O St., Sacramento, CA 95814.
Do your part to protect our pensions, health care and benefits – Join the new political action committee for CSEA Retirees, Inc. today!
Click here to see the CSEA Retirees, Inc. PAC brochure and application. Print it out, fill it out and mail it to CSEA Retirees, Inc., 1108 O St., Sacramento, CA 95814.
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Take Action!
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Use our new Action Center to contact legislators, write letters to the editor and more!

Use our new Action Center to contact legislators, write letters to the editor and more!

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CalPERS Member Web Site
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CalPERS has introduced the first release of a new, secure Web site designed with members in mind. my|CalPERS allows members to view and manage their personal information, and conduct their financial and retirement planning activities in a quick and secure way.
CalPERS has introduced the first release of a new, secure Web site designed with members in mind. my|CalPERS allows members to view and manage their personal information, and conduct their financial and retirement planning activities in a quick and secure way.
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