{"id":6003,"date":"2013-11-05T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6003"},"modified":"2013-11-13T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T20:14:03","slug":"changes-to-wrs-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6003","title":{"rendered":"Changes to WRS Proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/duey-stroebel-headshot.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6009  alignright\" title=\"duey stroebel headshot\" alt=\"duey stroebel headshot\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/duey-stroebel-headshot.jpeg\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/duey-stroebel-headshot.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/duey-stroebel-headshot-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>State Representative Duey Stroebel (R-Cedarburg), right, has introduced two bills that would change Wisconsin Retirement System benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2013\/related\/proposals\/ab470\">Assembly Bill 470<\/a> would increase the minimum retirement age by two years. If passed, it would apply to workers 40 and younger.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/2013\/related\/proposals\/ab471\">Assembly Bill 471<\/a> would calculate benefits based on the five highest earnings periods, a change from the current three year formula.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bills were referred to the <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/Pages\/comm-info.aspx?c=1041\">Joint Survey Committee on Retirement Systems<\/a>, but a hearing has not yet been scheduled. Stroebel co-chairs the committee with State Senator Dale Schultz (R-Richland Center). State Representative Terese Berceau (D-Madison) is also a member of the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) <a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/republican-lawmakers-propose-changes-to-public-workers-retirement-calculations\/article_75d3cb91-1794-539f-92fb-d193b2ccadf7.html\">told<\/a> the <em>Wisconsin State Journal<\/em> that the bill is &#8220;not going to happen this session.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Representative Duey Stroebel (R-Cedarburg), right, has introduced two bills that would change Wisconsin Retirement System benefits: Assembly Bill 470 would increase the minimum retirement age by two years. If passed, it would apply to workers 40 and younger. Assembly&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=6003\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-6003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","tag-wrs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6003"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}