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Mark Pocan: “Federal employees are made to pay more as a percent of their…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan Discusses Impact of Proposed Health Care and Social Program Cuts in Wisconsin Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 44:00

Do you think the Senate will pull out the changes to the federal employees retirement? I've heard some rumblings that they likely will. So what they did is they changed and made Federal employees are made to pay more as a percent of their income into the retirement fund. But usually there's an agreement how we do this. There's a commitment to the employees who had previously been there, and they are making a pretty stiff increase. (44:00–44:08)

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Asserts that federal employees are required to contribute a higher percentage of their income to retirement.

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