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FY 2024 Monthly Estimated Budget Projections, Revenue Estimates, and Expenditure Details (Office of Fiscal Analysis)

Jun 25, 2024 Featured

Monthly reports from the Connecticut General Assembly's Office of Fiscal Analysis detailing its most recent estimated General Fund budget projections.

June 25, 2024 Monthly Projections May 28, 2024 Monthly Projections April 30, 2024 Monthly Projections March 25 2024 Monthly Projections February 26 2024 Monthly Projections

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Teachers' Retirement System Financial Stabilization Law (Office of Legislative Research)

Dec 24, 2019

This research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research details changes made to Connecticut's Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) as a part of Conn. Acts 19-117, which, among other items, created a special capital reserve fund for the outstanding Connecticut Teachers’ Retirement bonds.

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Final Report (Connecticut Pension Sustainability Commission)

Jun 27, 2019

As part of the biennial state budget for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 (Conn. Acts 17-2 (June Special Session)), the Connecticut Pension Sustainability Commission was established to study the feasibility of placing state capital assets in a trust and maximizing those assets for the sole benefit of the state pension system. The 11-member Commission began its work in July 2018 and issued its final report on June 27, 2019.

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Pensions Fixed Costs

Stress Test Report for Connecticut's State Employees Retirement System (SERS) and Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) (The Pew Charitable Trusts)

Dec 13, 2018

Required by Section 109 of Conn. Acts 17-2 (June Special Session) to be conducted annually and reported to the General Assembly's Appropriations Committee, this stress test report of Connecticut's State Employees Retirement System (SERS) and Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) was conducted by The Pew Charitable Trusts and includes projections of benefit levels, pension costs, liabilities, and debt reduction under various economic and investment scenarios.

Stress Test Report for SERS and TRS Analysis of Stress Test Report for SERS and TRS

Pensions Fixed Costs

Assessing the Risk of Fiscal Distress for Public Pensions: State Stress Test Analysis (The Pew Charitable Trusts)

May 1, 2018

This paper, produced by The Pew Charitable Trusts for the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, summarizes the results of a stress test simulation analysis on the largest government pension plans in 10 states under different economic scenarios and assumptions for policymaker behavior.

Assessing the Risk of Fiscal Distress for Public Pensions

Pensions Fixed Costs

Research Report: State Employee Pension Benefits in Northeastern States (Office of Legislative Research)

Nov 22, 2017

Research report from the Connecticut General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Legislative Research that compares state employee pension benefits in northeastern states, including employee pension contribution rates, the number of years used to determine pension benefits, whether overtime pay is included in pension benefit calculations, and prescription drug copayments.

OLR State Employee Pension Benefits in Northeastern States

Pensions Fixed Costs

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