Members of the Committee:
Thank you for the opportunity to share our project’s perspective on Senate Bill 10 (SB10) and the proposal for allowing Optional Retirement Plan (ORP) participants to transfer their accrued liabilities to the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL).
My name is Steven Gassenberger, and I serve as a policy analyst for the Pension Integrity Project at Reason Foundation. Our team conducts quantitative public pension research and offers pro-bono technical assistance to officials and stakeholders aiming to improve pension resiliency and advance retirement security for public servants in a financially responsible way.
Allowing ORP participants in higher education to revoke
