(Bloomberg) — Maureen Lynch, 66, retired when the California government job-training agency where she worked was shuttered in 2014, assuming she could count on a $1,705 monthly pension for the rest of her life.
But her former employer, East San Gabriel Valley Human Services Consortium, left a $406,027 unpaid bill to the California Public Employees' Retirement System, which manages benefits for 3,000 local governments and districts.
As CalPERS, the nation's largest public pension, deals with a growing gap between what's been promised and what's been set aside, it may slash the checks of Lynch and 190 other workers by 63 percent — the rate by which the agency has fallen short.
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