Retirement System Quotes

We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

During my four years as treasurer, we restructured our pension system, cutting the state's unfunded liability almost by half and putting our retirement system on stronger footing.

Our government workers should be treated fairly and appropriately. They should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

I spent 19 years as a local government official; I spent two years in the Iowa Senate; my daughter is a public school teacher. We're all counting on IPERS. The public servants are counting on the system they were promised when entering public service.

No retirement system in the world is as broken as ours.

We will maintain and honor the commitments made to people in the IPERS system.

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan.