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Archive Home > 2005 > August > 19 > State retirees worry about PERS pension

State retirees worry about PERS pension

Checks could shrink by as much as 10 percent

By James Sinks / The Bulletin
August 19, 2005

SALEM - Their pension accounts buoyed by the skyrocketing stock market of the 1990s, thousands of Oregon public workers checked the math and decided that, yes, they could afford to retire.

But after an Oregon Supreme Court decision last week, many retirees are now glumly looking at subtraction....

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