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You dedicated your career to public service.
Your pension should give you the retirement you’ve earned.
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Your PERA-General pension is an important source – maybe even the primary source – of your retirement income.
You spent your career providing clean drinking water, landscaping the parks, maintaining the schools, managing the books – and more – for communities all over Minnesota. When you started thinking about retirement, you expected that your years of contributions would result in a pension that keeps up with the rising costs of expenses. And, historically, it did.
That’s because MMRA has been fighting for your retirement security since 1919. Throughout our history, MMRA has been the voice of public employee retirees at the State Capitol and before the PERA Board. Our efforts resulted in a longstanding bipartisan tradition of protecting and growing public employee pensions.
But our retirement security took a big hit in 2010 when, as part of sweeping changes to the public employee pension system, lawmakers cut the cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) to your benefits from a floor of 2.5% to a fixed 1% - even as healthcare and living costs continued to skyrocket. Since then, MMRA led the fight to stop the continued erosion of your pension – and partially restoring your COLA so that it provides you with the financial security that you have earned.
We’re not done yet, and we need your help to make MMRA even stronger. While the 2018 pension reform bill modestly improves your retirement security, it still caps your COLA below the 2.5% we had before 2010.
MMRA will continue to fight for a COLA that better protects you, and against efforts to balance the state’s pension challenges on the backs of public employee retirees.
Click HERE for MMRA President Leonard Krumm’s overview of the 2018 Pension Bill.
You spent your career providing clean drinking water, landscaping the parks, maintaining the schools, managing the books – and more – for communities all over Minnesota. When you started thinking about retirement, you expected that your years of contributions would result in a pension that keeps up with the rising costs of expenses. And, historically, it did.
That’s because MMRA has been fighting for your retirement security since 1919. Throughout our history, MMRA has been the voice of public employee retirees at the State Capitol and before the PERA Board. Our efforts resulted in a longstanding bipartisan tradition of protecting and growing public employee pensions.
But our retirement security took a big hit in 2010 when, as part of sweeping changes to the public employee pension system, lawmakers cut the cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) to your benefits from a floor of 2.5% to a fixed 1% - even as healthcare and living costs continued to skyrocket. Since then, MMRA led the fight to stop the continued erosion of your pension – and partially restoring your COLA so that it provides you with the financial security that you have earned.
We’re not done yet, and we need your help to make MMRA even stronger. While the 2018 pension reform bill modestly improves your retirement security, it still caps your COLA below the 2.5% we had before 2010.
MMRA will continue to fight for a COLA that better protects you, and against efforts to balance the state’s pension challenges on the backs of public employee retirees.
Click HERE for MMRA President Leonard Krumm’s overview of the 2018 Pension Bill.
CONCRETE RESULTS MMRA led the fight at the State Legislature to improve your COLA’s ability to keep up with inflation. This graph shows what that means for you. |
REFERRAL BONUSES Do you have family members or friends who are PERA General retirees? Click here to send them MMRA’s membership application. If they sign up and list your name as the referral, we’ll send you a $25 Visa gift card! |
TRUSTED HISTORY For 100 years, MMRA has been the voice of retired local government employees — protecting and strengthening the public pension benefits you've earned. |
Read MMRA's Summer 2019 Newsletter!