POLITICAL EYE BLOG: Raggio wants no retirement benefits for public workers before age 62
CARSON CITY — State Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio reiterated today that Republican support for tax increases is contingent on more meaningful reforms to the Public Employees Retirement System, including a requirement that no public employee hired after Jan. 1, 2010, can receive retirement benefits before age 62.
Raggio, R-Reno, said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing that even under other changes proposed in Senate Bill 427, regular employees, police and firefighters still could retire with full benefits at any age after working 30 years. He said that doesn't go far enough.
