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Scott Stringer: “We grew the pension fund during very difficult Covid times…”

Featuring: Scott Stringer, Democratic | Former Candidate, Mayor of New York City

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New York City Retirees' Mayoral Candidate Interview with Scott Stringer

Published | Video Starts at 11:49

I guess maybe he means what you have been doing or what you will do. Well, look, I spent eight years protecting the retirement security of hundreds of thousands of retirees and future retirees. We grew the pension fund during very difficult Covid times to a 9% rate of retirement. By the way, when I took office as comptroller, people don't realize that we commissioned a report to do an assessment of the back office of our pension fund and found that there were 200 issues related to the viability of the fund. (11:49–11:55)

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Asserts that the pension fund achieved a 9% rate of return during COVID-19.

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