Pension not guaranteed.

• Author: Graham, Dave
• Position: LETTERS - Letter to the editor

Editor:

I just finished reading the article in the May issue entitled "Pension Tension." While it is a very informative article, there is an inaccurate statement that I feel needs to be corrected.

Under the section titled "Options Limited," it states that: "Only Alaska and Ohio have constitutional guarantees of health-care benefits for retired employees."

This is simply not true in Ohio. In nearly every health care-related publication we print we clearly state that while pension benefits are guaranteed for Ohio's police officers and firefighters, the retiree health care plan sponsored by our system is not a guaranteed benefit. In fact, the pension system's Board of...